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Melancholy Acts
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Author : Nouri Gana
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Melancholy Acts written by Nouri Gana and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously the agent of its critique? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging engagements with Arab thought, literature, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab armies. Melancholy Acts offers a psychoaffective theory of cultural production that arises out of the disjunction between political impoverishment and cultural resistance to colonial and neoliberal oppression. Such a theory allows the author to trace the melancholy disposition of Arabic literary and filmic productions and to discern the precarious rhetorical modes of their critical intervention in a culture that is continually strained to its breaking point. Across six chapters, Melancholy Acts reads with rigor and sensitivity contentious topics of Arab contemporaneity such as secular modernity and manhood, Arab nationalism and leftism, literary and artistic iltizām, or commitment, Islamism, and martyrdom. The book tracks the melancholy politics that inform the literary and cultural projects of a multitude of Arab novelists (Ghassan Kanafani and Naguib Mahfouz); poets and playwrights (Mahmoud Darwish, Nizar Qabbani, and Saadallah Wannous); filmmakers (Nouri Bouzid, Moufida Tlatli, Youssef Chahine, and Hany Abu Assad); alongside the work of such intellectuals as Hussein Muruwwa, Malek Bennabi, Karima Lazali, George Tarabishi, and Fethi Benslama, from within the Arab world, as well as such non-Arab thinkers as Freud, Lacan, Adorno, Fanon, Spivak, Butler, and Žižek. Melancholy Acts charts a fresh and bold new approach to Arabic and comparative literature that combines in interlaced simultaneity a high sensitivity to local idioms, as they swerve between symptom and critique, with nuanced knowledge of the geopolitics of theory and psychoanalysis.
Shakespearean Melancholy
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Author : J.F. Bernard
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-17
Shakespearean Melancholy written by J.F. Bernard and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.
Melancholy And The Archive
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Author : Jonathan Boulter
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-05-19
Melancholy And The Archive written by Jonathan Boulter and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.
The Lovers Melancholy A Tragi Comedy In Five Acts And Chiefly In Verse
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Author : John Ford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1629
The Lovers Melancholy A Tragi Comedy In Five Acts And Chiefly In Verse written by John Ford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1629 with categories.
Melancholy
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Author : László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Melancholy written by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.
Melancholy And The Secular Mind In Spanish Golden Age Literature
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Author : Teresa Scott Soufas
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1990
Melancholy And The Secular Mind In Spanish Golden Age Literature written by Teresa Scott Soufas and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Employing a broad historical perspective that forces the reevaluation of historical and literary commonplaces, Soufas artfully illuminates the complex responses of Spanish Golden Age authors to major shifts in European intellectual outlook during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century."--Publishers website.
Melancholy And The Otherness Of God
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Author : Alina N. Feld
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011
Melancholy And The Otherness Of God written by Alina N. Feld and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Philosophy categories.
An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.
In This Season Of Rage And Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts As These
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Author : Kat Meads
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-15
In This Season Of Rage And Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts As These written by Kat Meads and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-15 with Fiction categories.
Built on the premise that the ugly can break one's heart more profoundly than the pretty, In This Season of Rage and Melancholy Such Irrevocable Acts as These portrays the changing South of the 1970s in a narrative that encompasses deceit, revenge, Pentecostal religion, coastal development and the disappearance of family farms.
The Melancholy Of Race
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Author : Anne Anlin Cheng
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Melancholy Of Race written by Anne Anlin Cheng and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cheng proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics.
The Clinique
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The Clinique written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Homeopathy categories.