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Journal articles on the topic "Melancholy in literature"

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Dybeł, Katarzyna. "Soigner la mélancolie au Moyen Âge : conseils et remèdes tirés des romans arthuriens français des XIIe–XIIIe siècles." Studia Litteraria 17, no. 1 (June 2, 2022): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.22.003.15303.

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O leczeniu melancholii w Średniowieczu: rady i terapie zaczerpnięte z francuskich powieści arturiańskich XII–XIII wieku Autorka analizuje wybrane francuskie powieści arturiańskie z XII i XIII wieku jako przykłady locus medicinalis, czyli miejsce styczności literatury i ówczesnej wiedzy medycznej, gdzie dochodzi do przecięcia fikcji literackiej i rzeczywistości medycznej, dla której melancholia stanowiła jedno z głównych wyzwań. Podobnie jak medycyna, literatura także podejmuje to wyzwanie, starając się opisać objawy melancholii, określić jej przyczyny, a przede wszystkim zaproponować skuteczną, mogącą przynieść ulgę terapię. W analizowanych powieściach pojęcie Melancholii zbliżone jest do acedii, patologicznego stanu duszy i umysłu, przejawiającego się smutkiem, obojętnością, zmęczeniem i wyczerpaniem serca. Stan ten przypisywano działaniu demona acedii, zwanego przez Kasjana i Ewagriusza z Pontu daemon meridianus. W analizowanych w tym artykule powieściach arturiańskich, gdzie ważne są przede wszystkim działania o charakterze psychologicznym i duchowym, leczenie melancholii oparte jest na holistycznej, chrześcijańskiej wizji człowieka, zgodnie z którą wzajemnie oddziałują na siebie stan umysłu, duszy i ciała. Oczyszczające łzy, uzdrowienie pamięci, wsparcie przyjaciół, obecność ukochanej osoby, radość odpędzająca smutek, modlitwa, nawrócenie, spowiedź i pielgrzymka okazują się skuteczniejsze niż teriak, maści, balsamy czy jakiekolwiek inne lekarstwa. Treating Melancholy in the Middle Ages: Advice and Remedies Offered by 12th and 13thCentury French Arthurian Romances. The author analyses the selected 12th and 13th-century French Arthurian romances as an example of locus medicinalis, i.e., the meeting place of literature and the medical knowledge of the time, where literary fiction intersects with the medical reality, for which melancholy was one of the major challenges. Like medicine, literature takes up the challenge, by seeking to describe the symptoms of melancholy, to define its causes and above all to propose an effective treatment to relieve it. In the romances analyzed, the concept of melancholy is similar to that of acedia, the vice of the soul manifested by boredom, indifference, fatigue, and exhaustion of the heart. The condition was attributed to the activity of the demon of acedia, called daemon meridianus by Cassian and Evagrius of Pontus. In the Arthurian romances analyzed in the article, in which acts of psychological and spiritual nature are of main importance, the treatment of melancholy is based on the holistic Christian vision of man, according to which the state of mind, soul, and body influence each other. Cathartic tears, memory healing, friends’ support, the presence of the beloved, joy that chases away sadness, prayer, conversion, confession, and pilgrimage prove to be more efficient than theriac, electuary, or any medicine.
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Junik-Łuniewska, Kamila. "Writing (in) melancholy. Loss and remembrance in the works of two contemporary Hindi writers." Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, no. 9 (April 24, 2018): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jk.2018.9.05.

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The paper aims at analysing the question of melancholy and memory in contemporary Hindi literature. The author selected works by two Hindi writers (T. Grover and U. Vajpeyi), who represent similar approach towards literature and use similar means of expression. The two main motifs characteristic for their writing – love (pyār) and loss (a-bhāv) – are closely related to the creative process: the loved one is the lost object, the one subjugated to melancholy, who can be remembered through writing. In the light of A. Świeściak’s idea of “melancholic subject” and S. Bahun’s concept of “performing melancholia”, the author discusses ways in which both the writers construct their literary world, inhabit it with loved/absent objects (beloved, father), and mourn their loss. The subject in their writing is both fictional and biographical, so the loss relates to literary as well as real events, becomes multidimensional. In Grover’s Blue, the subject’s separation with the beloved leads her to realise the loss of her father in childhood, and thus unveils the mourning and melancholy (symbolically represented by blue/Blue). U. Vajpeyi’s poems create a space for meeting his lost love, for weeping and remembrance, for exchanging letters (and writing). The results of the present study show that melancholy – as a consequence of loss, mourning, and remembering - becomes a creative force, inducing the author (narrator, subject) to write.
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Sargento, Isabel. "Melancholy in Marcel Proust." Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, no. 13 (June 23, 2022): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jk.2021.13.03.

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The purpose of this article is to show how Marcel Proust faces temporality and how we can establish a parallel between his moods and the melancholic state of mind. A brief reflection is made on our relationship with time and about melancholy as consequence of our awareness of the passage of time. Focusing on the study of the first chapter of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Proust’s work In Search of Lost Time, it is presented as part of Proust’s melancholic experience, the fact that he articulated different times with the recourse of involuntary memory, one of the main means used by him in the writing of this work. The question of intuitions as thrusters of this same involuntary memory is addressed and as Proust, neither offering us a figurative literature, nor an abstract literature, used this formula in the struggle against his melancholic hopelessness. It is specified how Proust made the image (figure) to appear alternating the sensation of present with the sensation of past. Some considerations are made about mourning from two different standpoints, firstly from Walter Benjamin’s point of view and his philosophical perspective on the phenomenon of melancholy, then from the approach of Sigmund Freud, to whom melancholy is a pathology within the scope of psychiatry, opposed to mourning. The “loss” prevails throughout this reflection as a condition for the melancholic disposition.
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Dibekulu, Dawit, Tesfaye Dagnew, and Tesfamaryam G/ Meskel. "Melancholy in selected contemporary Amharic novel The novel Yäqənat Zār -“Zār of Jealousy”." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2023): 84–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2023-0030.

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Abstract This article aims to analyse the representation of melancholy and to find out the causes and effects of melancholy in the characters in the selected Amharic novels (with reference to the novel Yäqənat Zār (“Zār of Jealousy”). It employs the intrinsic psychoanalytic theory of literature specifically theory of mourning and melancholy. This study is sought with interpretative paradigm, a qualitative approach and descriptive research design to reveal the issue of the novel. The object of the study is novel by Sisay Nigusu Yäqənat Zār (“Zār of Jealousy). It describes how someone (Literary characters in the novel) developed melancholia after the loss of someone loved. The findings of the study indicate that the major characters experienced melancholy, as evidenced by their altered behaviour, alignment, self-blame, death wishes, and paralysis. It was also discovered that the reason behind her melancholy was the unexpected passing of her partner, as well as the loss of his wife and family, respectively.
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Krawczyk, Dariusz. "Imaginaire mélancolique et rhétorique sacrée dans La Dernière Semaine de Michel Quillian." Studia Litteraria 17, no. 2 (August 2, 2022): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.22.012.15600.

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There are few areas of late 16th-century literature in France from which melancholy is absent. Religious literature does not escape it either, as testified by a very popular theme of vanitas. It is also evident in apocalyptic writing where religious rhetoric and melancholy meet. The French apocalyptic epics of the time take advantage of these possibilities to reinforce the effectiveness of the message. This article explores the melancholic landscapes in Michel Quillian’s La Dernière Semaine and considers the place that this imagery and these themes might have had in its author’s parenetic design and rhetorical choices.
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Andreenko, D. V. "Melancholy and Crisis Worldview as the Situation of Man “In His Time” in the First Third of the XX Century." Discourse 7, no. 4 (September 28, 2021): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2021-7-4-33-44.

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Introduction. Shaping modernity in the first third of the twentieth century is tied to the private worldview of the person of this era in which the main metaphor of the individual perception of “their time” is melancholy. The crisis of this historical period forms the prism of melancholic worldview. The goal of this article is to substantiate the reasons for the perception of melancholy as a phenomenon caused in part by the problem of individual experience of time. The relationship between melancholy and modernity has already been noted in the literature, but this text raises a new question – what is the temporal nature of this mutual influence?Methodology and sources. A key role in the understanding of melancholy is played by the texts of authors of the early 20th century: Walter Benjamin, devoted to Charles Baudelaire and the work of Sigmund Freud “Mourning and Melancholy”. The issue of temporality in the work is interpreted through the reference to the phenomenological tradition, namely in reference to the modern phenomenological analysis of depressive disorder in the work of Domonkos Sik.Results and discussion. The author comes to the conclusion that the feeling of the interrelation of melancholy and the epoch is extremely specific for a person of the first third of the 20th century, evidence of which could be found in the philosophical and cultural reflection of this period. Crisis worldview is reflected in literature, painting, cinema, philosophy, social theory, etc. Thus, it is possible to represent melancholy as a phenomenon, partly caused by the problem of individual experience of time. Melancholy occurs when a crisis worldview is supplemented by an experience of circular temporality, the disappearance of the future, preoccupation with the past, passivity, or isolation.Conclusion. If these elements come together, a total worldview is formed in which real world events intensify melancholy. In this sense, phenomenologically speaking, melancholy is not so much a state as a dynamic process.
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Wolfson, Elliot R. "Melancholic Redemption and the Hopelessness of Hope." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 30, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 130–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1477285x-12341330.

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Abstract Since late antiquity, a connection was made between Jews and the psychological state of despondency based, in part, on the link between melancholy and Saturn, and the further association of the Hebrew name of that planet, Shabbetai, and the Sabbath. The melancholic predisposition has had important anthropological, cosmological, and theological repercussions. In this essay, I focus on various perspectives on melancholia in thinkers as diverse as Kafka, Levinas, Blanchot, Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Bloch, Scholem, and Derrida. A common thread that links these thinkers is the hopelessness of hope imparted by the messianic belief in a future that must be perpetually deferred.
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Harasztos, Ágnes. "The Cliché of the Melancholy East-Central European in Postmodern British Literature." Freeside Europe Online Academic Journal, no. 12 (2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.51313/freeside-2021-2.

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Postmodern British novels about East-Central Europe use the cliché of a melancholy Easterner to characterize this geocultural zone. This literary cliché dates back to Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Among many others, the melancholy cliché reveals the in-betweenness of East-Central Europe which can be understood both on a cultural and on a racial level. The figure of the lonely monster also suggests an objectified existence which is perceived as falling out of the space of linear modern time. Rose Tremain’s The Road Home (2007) and Bruce Chatwin’s Utz (1989) contain melancholy East-Central Europe representations which investigate post-socialist concerns, such as economic migration or troubled cultural memory. Melancholy is inherent in the creation of a modern self both as a mental state accompanying solitary thinking and as a subversive force denying fundamental meaning. The mapping of this cliché has a meta-cultural relevance, since both melancholy and the category of cliché represent anti-Modern forces thus characterizing the literary East-Central Europe image.
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Haverkamp, Anselm. "Mourning Becomes Melancholia. A Muse Deconstructed: Keats's Ode on Melancholy." New Literary History 21, no. 3 (1990): 693. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469134.

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Levy, Jette Lundbo. "Epilogical melancholy." Ibsen Studies 3, no. 1 (June 2003): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15021860304321.

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Ellington, Jazmine Charne. "Melancholy and Other Rabbit Holes." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1622649832121361.

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Fong, Chung-yan, and 鄺頌欣. "Melancholia and autobiography in Roland Barthes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951259.

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Walczyk, Kayla. "Melancholy Aesthetics:: Experiencing Loss in Woolf and Duras." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107892.

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Thesis advisor: Kevin Ohi
Thesis advisor: Kayla Walczyk
Fiction, in that it need not position itself at a safe distance from melancholia in order to point at with a theoretical probe, presents a more accurate vision of the melancholic structure. Instead of simply describing and defining melancholia, fiction can inhabit the space of the pathology. In this way, it can perform the consuming and debilitating suffering that ensues after the experience of an inexpressible loss. In doing so, it can force the reader to experience in the act of reading what it would be like to meet melancholia in all its disturbing allure and destructive capacities. Certain fictional representations of loss, in the way they pull their readers into a melancholic vortex, profoundly enact the difficulties that result in this encounter. The capacity of fiction to render the melancholic structure in all its complexity is evident in Marguerite Duras’ The Ravishing of Lol Stein and in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In the way these texts perform the dynamics of the melancholic structure, they push beyond the precipice of where scientific language is forced to stop. This reading of The Ravishing of Lol Stein and To the Lighthouse is not an attempt to psychoanalyze fictional characters or the authors who created them; such a study is highly speculative and relatively unproductive. It is an attempt to recognize how melancholy seems to be functioning in and performed by these texts, and in this interpretive schema, recognizing how fiction can do what theory cannot
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: English
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Demeter, Jason M. "Melancholy and the Implosion of the Family in Early- and Post-Modern Tragedy." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1208264666.

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Mertz-Weigel, Dorothée. "Figuring melancholy from Jean de Meun to Moliere, via Montaigne, Descartes, Rotrou and Corneille /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117647343.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 258 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-258). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Marshall, Nowell Andrew. "Engendering melancholy : romantic gender performance and the pre-history of abnormality /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=58&did=1907270851&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270148617&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-243). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
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Fong, Chung-yan. "Melancholia and autobiography in Roland Barthes." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18685523.

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Betts, Lindsey N. "The Performance of Melancholy: Understanding the Humours through Burton, Jonson, and Shakespeare." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1368.

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This thesis aims to explore the relationships between dramatic texts and the Elizabethan topic of the humours. It covers Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Jonson's plays Every Man Out of His Humour and Every Man in His Humour, and Shakespeare's plays Hamlet and As You Like It. Each of these works provides a glimpse into society and its opinions specifically on melancholy, from its most basic and complex definitions to how it is perceived and addressed.
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Schlumpf, Erin. "Melancholy, Ambivalence, Exhaustion: Responses to National Trauma in the Literature and Film of France and China." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10263.

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This dissertation exposes responses to national trauma in literature and film from France in the twenty-five years following the 1940-1944 German Occupation, and from China in the twenty years following the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. My study is unique in that it focuses on French and Chinese authors who lived through the two traumatic periods, but whose work does not present a conventional version of bearing witness. Instead of locating expressions of national trauma in narratives describing historical traumatic events, I detect three aesthetic concerns or symptoms--melancholy, ambivalence, and exhaustion, which can be read as the traces of traumas that seem to evade direct identification. I argue that trauma may make its presence known by an absence of reference to its source. Emerging during post-traumatic periods--the Trente glorieuses in France (from 1945 to 1973) and the Post-New Era in China (from 1990 to the present)--my dissertation argues that novels by Marguerite Duras and Wang Anyi, novellas by Samuel Beckett and Ge Fei, and films by Jean-Luc Godard and Jia Zhangke reveal a tension between present national circumstances and ghosts from the past. These two post-traumatic national moments in France and China share the state projects and dominant discourses of economic growth, consumption, individualism, and nationalism, which I claim aided in the repression of troubled recent histories. The works of fiction and film I discuss in this dissertation, marked by melancholy, ambivalence, and exhaustion, offer counter-discourses in that they fail to partake in the project of national "progress," instead exposing irresolution with respect to overcoming history. In these works, furthermore, I contend that such historical (re)negotiations prompt aesthetic innovations, allowing for a redefinition of the causes and cases of early postmodernism.
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Wallerich, Nazanin Leila. "Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness: A Mental Therapy Retreat." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51162.

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In America alone, 19 million people live with depression. Untreated depression is the leading cause of suicide in the United States and the third leading cause of death between 18-25 year olds. The aim of the project was guided based on the idea that we could take sadness as a manifestation in order to allow the possibility of controlling and manipulating it.  The idea was based on a well documented understanding that melancholia creates a permeable boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness.  In melancholia there is an internalization of behaviors that insulate and isolate the individual. With this level of introspection also comes an underlying gift of deep passion, curiosity and cognition.  This gift brings a deep understanding to the workings of the world.  It is in this dual reality that lies a realm of complexity and possibility.  This understanding of depression led me to believe in how powerful and how necessary the simple yet essential feeling of hope was. The concept of hope seems like an illusion but sometimes it\'s the only thing you have.  The hope is what keeps you going and allows a tangible identity to sanity.  How can architecture reflect hope and how can a space help the weary hearted? These questions pleaded for answers and this thesis is a result of the search.  The search for a better place in our minds. The desire for a hope that we are not prisoners to our sadness The quest for answers laid its journey on a cliff edge on the Olmsted Island of Great Falls, MD ; a site amplified with majestic soaring views and soundscapes of water and nature that accentuate the program of an alternative mental therapy retreat.
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Books on the topic "Melancholy in literature"

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Lambrecht, Roland. Melancholie: Vom Leiden an der Welt und den Schmerzen der Reflexion. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1994.

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Pigeaud, Jackie. De la mélancolie: Fragments de poétique et d'histoire. Paris: Dilecta, 2005.

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Boccara, Nadia. Solitudine e conversazione: I moralisti classici e David Hume / Nadia Boccara. Roma: Università degli studi della Tuscia, Istituto di scienze umane e delle arti, Facoltà di lingue e letterature straniere moderne, 1994.

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Cantagrel, Laurent. De la maladie à l'écriture: Genèse de la mélancolie romantique. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004.

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Hansen, Ann-Marie. Miroirs de la mélancolie: Mirrors of melancholy. Paris: Hermann, 2015.

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Lepenies, Wolf. Melancholy and society. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Schor, Naomi. One hundred years of melancholy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

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Schor, Naomi. One hundred years of melancholy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

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R, St Onge K. The melancholy anatomy of plagiarism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.

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Susanne, Hefti, ed. Melancholie. Regensberg: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster und Verlag Regensberg, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Melancholy in literature"

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Lawlor, Clark. "Fashionable Melancholy." In Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 25–53. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230306592_2.

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Terry, Richard. "Philosophical Melancholy." In Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 54–82. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230306592_3.

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Ehland, Christoph, and Stephan Kohl. "Commercializing Melancholy: The National Trust." In The Literature of Melancholia, 130–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230336988_9.

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Lawlor, Clark. "Consumption and Love Melancholy: The Renaissance Tradition." In Consumption and Literature, 15–27. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230625747_2.

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Salmon, Laura. "Chronotopes of Affectivity in Literature. On Melancholy, Estrangement, and Reflective Nostalgia." In Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 11–30. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.02.

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Basing our analysis on the concepts of ‘emotion’, ‘feeling’, and ‘mood’ as defined by data from the cognitive sciences, we argue that human emotions are both universal and intrinsically linked to literary and artistic chronotopes. In her study of 'reflective' and 'restorative' nostalgia, Svetlana Boym (2001) shows that 'nostalgia' itself represents pure ambivalence that takes on a particular shape in response to the mood, thoughts, and psychological state of the author. Its ultimate expression might assume the form of either monological ideology or of paradoxical existential emotion. It is this second type of nostalgia that we can link most closely link to understandings of both 'melancholy' and 'identity' or 'self-consciousness'. Brooding and melancholic toska is shared by persons who suffer from what we might call 'existential ambivalence'; these persons are 'mercurials' in the terminology of Yuri Slezkine (2004). Within the field of Russian literature, this 'mercurial' sense of melancholy is particularly well developed.
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Sim, Stuart. "Despair, Melancholy and the Novel." In Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 114–41. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230306592_5.

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Fritzsche, Peter. "The Melancholy of History: The French Revolution and European Historiography." In The Literature of Melancholia, 116–29. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230336988_8.

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Sitter, John. "The Poetry of Melancholy from Finch to Keats." In A Companion to British Literature, 277–97. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118827338.ch69.

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Tsentourou, Naya. "‘Let Lovers Sigh Out the Rest’: Witnessing the Breath in the Early Modern Emotional Body." In The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine, 175–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_9.

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AbstractThis essay examines how breath is observed, recorded, and accounted for in cases of love melancholy in early modern literary and medical texts. It draws on the poetry of George Herbert and the works of Robert Burton and Jacques Ferrand on lovesickness to argue that writing on the respiration of the melancholic lover in the Renaissance involves a process of performative displacement as well as entanglement, most visible in the practice of intertextuality. As Tsentourou shows, intertextual references to emotional breathing blur the binary between patient and physician, casting bodies and texts as spaces where the detached witness conspires with the lovesick subject, and, in turn, with the reader.
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Economides, Louise. "The Environmental Sublime and Ecological Melancholy." In The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature, 109–52. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47750-7_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Melancholy in literature"

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Bochkina, M. "THE ABYSS IN THE NOVEL “PETROV’S FLU” BY A. SALNIKOV AND “SHATUNY” BY YU. MAMLEEV." In VIII International Conference “Russian Literature of the 20th-21st Centuries as a Whole Process (Issues of Theoretical and Methodological Research)”. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3719.rus_lit_20-21/172-175.

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The article explores the concept of the abyss and its interpretation in the novels by Mamleev “Shatuny” and A. Salnikov “Petrov's Flu”. Mamleev substantiated the concept of the abyss in his philosophical works, and the author explains the paradoxical nature of Russian consciousness by the constant feeling of the abyss. Such features of Russian consciousness as the desire for the transcendental, the feeling of melancholy, deprivation and at the same time self-worth are embodied in the heroes of “Shatuny”. In A. Salnikov’s novel, the heroes are also characterized by a focus on themselves, while they are burdened by their ordinariness, and in the novel’s world there is an invisibly present feeling of a second reality.
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Meškova, Sandra. "THE SENSE OF EXILE IN CONTEMPORARY EAST CENTRAL EUROPEAN WOMEN’S LIFE WRITING: DUBRAVKA UGREŠIČ AND MARGITA GŪTMANE." In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/22.

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Exile is one of the central motifs of the 20th century European culture and literature; it is closely related to the historical events throughout this century and especially those related to World War II. In the culture of East Central Europe, the phenomenon of exile has been greatly determined by the context of socialism and post-socialist transformations that caused several waves of emigration from this part of Europe to the West or other parts of the world. It is interesting to compare cultures of East Central Europe, the historical situations of which both during World War II and after the collapse of socialism were different, e.g. Latvian and ex-Yugoslavian ones. In Latvia, exile is basically related to the emigration of a great part of the population in the 1940s and the issue of their possible return to the renewed Republic of Latvia in the early 1990s, whereas the countries of the former Yugoslavia experienced a new wave of emigration as a result of the Balkan War in the 1990s. Exile has been regarded by a great number of the 20th century philosophers, theorists, and scholars of diverse branches of studies. An important aspect of this complex phenomenon has been studied by psychoanalytical theorists. According to the French poststructuralist feminist theorist Julia Kristeva, the state of exile as a socio-cultural phenomenon reflects the inner schisms of subjectivity, particularly those of a feminine subject. Hence, exile/stranger/foreigner is an essential model of the contemporary subject and exile turns from a particular geographical and political phenomenon into a major symbol of modern European culture. The present article regards the sense of exile as a part of the narrator’s subjective world experience in the works by the Yugoslav writer Dubravka Ugrešič (“The Museum of Unconditional Surrender”, in Croatian and English, 1996) and Latvian émigré author Margita Gūtmane (“Letters to Mother”, in Latvian, 1998). Both authors relate the sense of exile to identity problems, personal and culture memory as well as loss. The article focuses on the issues of loss and memory as essential elements of the narrative of exile revealed by the metaphors of photograph and museum. Notwithstanding the differences of their historical situations, exile as the subjective experience reveals similar features in both authors’ works. However, different artistic means are used in both authors’ texts to depict it. Hence, Dubravka Ugrešič uses irony, whereas Margita Gūtmane provides a melancholic narrative of confession; both authors use photographs to depict various aspects of memory dynamic, but Gūtmane primarily deals with private memory, while Ugrešič regards also issues of cultural memory. The sense of exile in both authors’ works appears to mark specific aspects of feminine subjectivity.
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