The Writing Of Melancholy

Author : Ross Chambers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226100707

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Sees in the disjunction between the narrative function and the textual function of mid-19th-century French literature, a reflection of the general malaise that swept the country in the wake of the failed revolution of 1848. Considers the works of Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo. First published in French in 1987. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198029670

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The Nature of Melancholy by Jennifer Radden Pdf

Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.

Author : Jon Fosse
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564784517

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Melancholy by Jon Fosse Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.

Author : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0195151658

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Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over 30 pieces of Western writing about melancholy and related conditions. It unravels an ongoing conversation across centuries and continents as thinkers interpret, respond, and build on each other's work.

Author : Michael Ann Holly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691139340

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The Melancholy Art by Michael Ann Holly Pdf

Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy.

Author : Urszula Chowaniec
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443884921

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Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women's Writing by Urszula Chowaniec Pdf

Reading contemporary women’s writing as melancholy texts highlights their often under-explored neuralgic nature and emancipatory value. These “strangers in their own lands,” as most recent Polish women writers and their work were described, are the subject of detailed analysis in this book, and are also positioned as the mirrors in which those lands are reflected. From this perspective, the melancholic strands in women’s writing are drawn together to provide a diagnosis of the current situation in Poland, taking into account unwanted discourses, unwelcomed subjects and unresolved problems. Melancholic Migrating Bodies offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment after 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing. It critically surveys the various political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of the foremost Polish female novelists. In this original way, the book adopts a fresh perspective on some of the country’s key questions, such as Catholicism, nationalism, the patriotic ethos, history, romantic mythology and the problem of memory.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : UOM:39015036611625

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Author : Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782832409

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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The Melancholy of Resistance, Lszl Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, 'is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.' And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of Guardian, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.'

Author : Matt Colquhoun
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912248889

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Egress by Matt Colquhoun Pdf

Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher. Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher’s philosophical trajectory, from his days as a PhD student at the University of Warwick to the development of his unfinished book on Acid Communism. Taking the word “egress” as its starting point—a word used by Fisher in his book The Weird and the Eerie to describe an escape from present circumstances as experiences by the characters in countless examples of weird fiction—Egress consider the politics of death and community in a way that is indebted to Fisher’s own forms of cultural criticism, ruminating on personal experience in the hope of making it productively impersonal.

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : UVA:X002743391

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Author : László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300220698

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Melancholy by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) Pdf

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.

Author : Tania Glyde
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847654809

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Cleaning Up by Tania Glyde Pdf

Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many people drank more and as a clock-watching 6pm-er who hardly ever threw up in public, by general standards she was fine - despite the constant hangover and the bottle of vodka stashed in her handbag. At the end of a 23-year love affair with alcohol, Tania Glyde remembers her inner white wine witch. Exposing the culpability of the drinks industry, the enabling qualities of Class As and our powerful sense of entitlement to drink until we fall over, Cleaning Up examines a moral panic of our time, exploring why women drink, how to stop and what life after alcohol is really like

Author : Robert Burton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Sally Brampton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408826386

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Shoot the Damn Dog by Sally Brampton Pdf

Shoot the Damn Dog blasts the stigma of depression as a character flaw and confronts the illness Winston Churchill called 'the black dog', a condition that humiliates, punishes and isolates its sufferers. It is a personal account of a journey through (and out of) severe depression as well as being a practical book, offering ideas about what might help. With its raw, understated eloquence, it will speak volumes to anyone whose life has been haunted by depression, as well as offering help and understanding to those whose loved ones suffer from this terrifying condition.