The Anatomy Of Melancholy

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : 0198124481

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The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Pdf

"This, the final volume of the Clarendon Press edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, contains commentary on the Third Partition, in which Burton considers two especial forms of the disease, Love Melancholy and Religious Melancholy. In treating of these Burton had fewer precedents to follow than in previous sections, but he was able to draw largely on his extensive knowledge of classical literature and also on his acquaintance with English drama and poetry (including popular verse). As ever his range of reference to other authors is wide, and the volume includes a substantial index giving biographical and bibliographical information on the more than 1550 authorities cited in the Anatomy, most of whom are little known today. Also included are an index of the major topics discussed in the Anatomy, and a complete bibliography of all the works mentioned in the commentary." --Book Jacket.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : UIUC:30112073247972

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The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838849

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A User's Guide to Melancholy by Mary Ann Lund Pdf

400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : UIUC:30112073247980

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The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Pdf

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486148588

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The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Pdf

One of the richest books in the English language, this systematized medical treatise on morbid mental states also features a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources.

Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107086814

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The Memory Arts in Renaissance England by William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams Pdf

Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : MINN:31951P00048365B

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The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Pdf

Author : Shelley Jackson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307773937

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The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson Pdf

Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light. Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of phlegm cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus larger than a human becomes the new town pastor. In this debut story collection, Shelley Jackson rewrites our private passages, and translates the dumb show of the body into prose as gorgeous as it is unhygienic.

Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521190503

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Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England by Mary Ann Lund Pdf

Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.

Author : Nastassja Martin
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781681375861

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In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin Pdf

After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin’s professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. In the course of that encounter something in the balance of her world shifts. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker’s classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.

Author : Angus Gowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107321083

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The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy by Angus Gowland Pdf

Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encyclopaedic Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621). Approaching the Anatomy as the culmination of early modern medical, philosophical and spiritual inquiry about melancholy, Gowland examines the ways in which Burton exploited the moral psychology central to the Renaissance understanding of the condition to construct a critical vision of his intellectual and political environment. In the first sustained analysis of the evolving relationship of the Anatomy (in the various versions issued between 1621 and 1651) to late Renaissance humanist learning and early seventeenth-century England and Europe, Gowland corrects the prevailing view of the work as an unreflective digest of other authors' opinions, and reveals the Anatomy's character as a polemical literary engagement with the live intellectual, religious and political issues of its day.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141963334

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Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton Pdf

Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this all-encompassing examination of the human condition. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1903385830

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The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum Pdf

Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

Author : Susan Wells
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271085487

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Robert Burton’s Rhetoric by Susan Wells Pdf

Published in five editions between 1621 and 1651, The Anatomy of Melancholy marks a unique moment in the development of disciplines, when fields of knowledge were distinct but not yet restrictive. In Robert Burton’s Rhetoric, Susan Wells analyzes the Anatomy, demonstrating how its early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today. In the first decades of the seventeenth century, Robert Burton attempted to gather all the existing knowledge about melancholy, drawing from professional discourses including theology, medicine, and philology as well as the emerging sciences. Examining this text through a rhetorical lens, Wells provides an account of these disciplinary exchanges in all their subtle variety and abundant wit, showing that questions of how knowledge is organized and how it is made persuasive are central to rhetorical theory. Ultimately, Wells argues that in addition to a book about melancholy, Burton’s Anatomy is a meditation on knowledge. A fresh interpretation of The Anatomy of Melancholy, this volume will be welcomed by scholars of early modern English and the rhetorics of health and medicine, as well as those interested in transdisciplinary work and rhetorical theory.

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110436082

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Handbook of English Renaissance Literature by Ingo Berensmeyer Pdf

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.