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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 OhiThesis 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.Master of Architecture
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Thompson, Dean. "The subtextual body : melancholy, humoural physiology and bodies of knowledge in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/119285.
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This dissertation examines the themes of epistemology related to the physiology of the humours and melancholy in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English prose, with chief emphasis on Robert Burton’s (1577-1640) The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). It charts the transformations of the humoural condition in philosophy, anatomy and the medical treatise throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the renewed interest in the Renaissance of the ‘inspired’ form of melancholy by Florentine Neoplatonist Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) to the middle of the seventeenth century in the writings of Thomas Browne (1605-1682). The first chapter serves as an introduction to the approach of the dissertation, which integrates a cultural historical approach to literary analysis of the Anatomy as some form of an anatomical treatise in the sense that it treats both a body of knowledge and knowledge of the body. Chapter two interrogates the distinction made by scholars between the ‘Ficinian’ and ‘Galenic’ forms of melancholy, and argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humoural physiology recognises no such distinction, but rather that they serve as mutually sustainable responses to the problem presented to humoural physiology of visualising the interior of the living human body. Chapter three argues that, rather than using ‘anatomy’ and ‘melancholy’ as metaphorical constructs for rhetorical aims, the Anatomy pursues the intellectual possibilities implicit in anatomy as a highly procedural mode of analysis toward comprehending knowledge of a humoural body described in Galenic medicine, but that the text, as a result of the complications with completing such a body of knowledge, instead voices disembodiment. The fourth chapter proposes an analysis of Thomas Browne’s Hydriotaphia, known also as Urn Burial (1658), as having thematic continuity with both Burton’s Anatomy but also seventeenth-century humoural physiology as well, in that, while studying the past from the perspective of antiquarian speculation and cultural history, it concludes similarly that knowledge of the complete is impossible by the analysis of ruined and fragmentary objects and surfaces.
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Burkey, Adam P. "Prisoners of Loss: Melancholia in Contemporary American Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1374594525.
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Wrangö, Johan. "Poe's Gothic Protagonist : Isolation and melancholy in four of Poe's works." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-661.
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This paper will argue that there are similarities between “The Raven”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Ligeia” and “Berenice” in their treatment of the common motifs of isolation and melancholy, and, furthermore, that their protagonists are similar due to their relation to these two motifs. The paper will also argue that the usage of the motif of isolation is a strategic way for the author to emphasise the Gothic horror. In order to support my argument, I will, firstly, provide an outline of how melancholy, isolation and the Gothic were understood in the nineteenth century. Secondly, I will demonstrate ways in which the works are similar. By comparing the characters’ personalities and behaviour to each other, I will illustrate how melancholy and isolation are represented in similar ways in the works of this study. Thirdly, I will show how the motif of isolation reinforces the Gothic.
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Zampini, Tania. "Melancholy and the modern consciousness of Francesco Petrarca : a close reading of melancholy, acedia, and love-sickness in the Secretum, De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae and Canzoniere." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116010.
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The most important classical Greek heroes were believed to suffer from a physical, mental, and spiritual illness shown negatively to alter their general state of being. Attributed to an excess of black bile in the body, the earliest documented form of this ailment came to be known as "melancholy;" paramount among its effects was the emergence of a severely split being sincerely pursuing Virtue, yet markedly susceptible to the Passions that threatened to veer him off his course.In the Middle Ages, traces of melancholy are found in the sin of acedia still today considered a rather "medieval" vice. Globally defined as a state of "general apathy," acedia was believed more egregiously to affect solitary religious figures devoted to prayer. The dawn of Humanism in Western Europe, however, saw this notion extended to the more general scholar, and featured as (arguably) its first protagonist, 14 th-century humanist Francesco Petrarca.
The manifestations of this malady pervade his oeuvre as a whole: repeatedly in his immense repertoire, Petrarch - at least in his proliferation of an artistic or lyrical "io" or self--surfaces as a fragmented if not strictly binary figure both tormented by his incumbent passions and resolutely determined to overcome them. Petrarch's often autobiographical figures are ruled by conflicting inner forces which leave them paralysed, indecisive, and helpless before Fortune, in a new position foreshadowing the anthropocentric and, to a degree, "bipartite" "modernity" soon to flood the continent.
Through a close reading of three of his most celebrated texts - the Secretum, De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae, and the Canzoniere, this study will seek to posit Petrarch as a fundamentally melancholic and "accidioso" writer whose condition of internal and social rupture more generally speaks to the emerging "crisis of modernity" which he perhaps first sets to the center stage of his period.
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Stamova, Darina. "Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 115 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654488641&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Hinchcliffe, Richard. "Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death : structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2000. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/20770/.
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This thesis explores structures of melancholy in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and by viewing each text as being subject to contemporary cultural influences. In particular, the thesis maps how each of the novels comments on human progress through a combination of historical, scientific, cultural, social and political paradigms. In the chapters on The Sirens of Titan and Mother Night the protagonist is seen as suffering from a number of melancholic complaints that are closely related to schizophrenia, while the narratives as a whole exploit this splintering of the self to suggest a variety of allegorical readings. The chapters on Player Piano, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions discuss how the Puritan foundations of American culture play a major part in the construction of the self through the establishment of the Protestant work ethic. These chapters also attempt to expose how many of the ideological concepts that adhere to work, progress and capitalism have melancholic consequences for all involved. Throughout the thesis the relationship between reality and representation, language and authority is seen as being crucial to understanding the depth of Vonnegut's early novels and the way in which each novel deconstructs established values and subverts readers' expectations. Occasionally, the thesis discusses the novels' poststructural concerns as appearing to precipitate melancholy within both readers and characters. However, the thesis also explores how melancholy has been seen historically to galvanise the soul and build up, from the depths of depression, a renewal of spirit. Overall, the thesis shows how melancholy is a constituent part of Vonnegut's novels, connecting his work to the tradition in American melancholic writing created by the founders of the nation. This thesis traces the persistence of this melancholic note within selected Vonnegut novels and its connections with other themes identified within his work.
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Zhou, Lu Lucy. ""The Lavatory Scene" in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior :a psychoanalytical interpretation." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954457.
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Baker, William Andrew. "Melancholy and the Photo-Historical Approach in the Films of Wim Wenders." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161913209076124.
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Freire, Manoel. "Revolta e melancolia : uma leitura da obra de Lima Barreto." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269910.
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Resumo: Elaborada sob o signo do inconformismo e orientada pelo ideal de uma literatura militante, a obra de Lima Barreto expõe ao mesmo tempo as agudas contradições da sociedade brasileira dos primeiros anos da república e as agruras da vida íntima do escritor, cuja biografia é o sintoma vivo daquelas mesmas contradições que alimentam os seus textos. Se os diários revelam a dimensão mais íntima e pessoal de Lima Barreto, oferecendo um roteiro biográfico para a leitura de sua ficção, os escritos circunstanciais constituem uma espécie de roteiro ideológico em que o Autor, por meio de textos militantes, denuncia as iniqüidades da sociedade brasileira do seu tempo. Assim, alimentada pelas injunções históricas imediatas e pelas circunstâncias biográficas do romancista, a escrita de Lima Barreto dá voz ao protesto mudo dos vencidos, modulada pela revolta do injustiçado e a melancolia do fracassado.
Abstract: Elaborated on the sign of nonconformism and driven by the ideal of a militant literature, Lima Barreto's work depicts at the same time the acute contradictions of Brazilian society in the first years of republic and the adversities of personal life of this author whose biography is a living symptom of those same contradictions that comprise his texts. If diaries reveal a most personal dimension of Lima Barreto offering a biographical outline to a reading of his fiction, circumstantial pieces of writing is seen as a kind of ideological outline in which the author by means of militant texts points the finger at inequalities of Brazilian society at his time. In this way, comprised by immediate historical determinations e by biographical circumstances, Lima Barreto's writing give voice to silent protest of underdogs, modulated by revolt of injustice and by melancholy of unsuccessfulness.
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O'Connor, Bryan M. (Brian Michael) 1958. "A Lacanian reading of Boswell's morbid will : melancholia and "angst"." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8768.
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Jakse, Vanessa. "The Black Blood of the Tennysons: Rhetoric of Melancholy and the Imagination in Tennyson's Poetry." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1403722947.
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Mertz-Weigel, Dorothee. "Figuring melancholy: from Jean de Meun to Moliere, via Montaigne, Descartes, Rotrou and Corneille." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117647343.
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Stamm, Gina M. "The Context of Loss: Contextualization of the Language of Traumatic Memory in Hiroshima Mon Amour and Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1279639764.
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Grossi, Juliana Toazza. "Ana Clara e Anelise: a relação entre literatura, sociedade e melancolia em As Meninas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles e As Parceiras, de Lya Luft." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2015. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/2731.
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Este trabalho se estabelece a partir da análise comparada entre as personagens Ana Clara, de As Meninas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles, e Anelise, de As Parceiras, de Lya Luft. Para isso, partimos fundamentalmente das concepções apresentadas por Antonio Candido e Mikhail Bahktin acerca da construção da personagem na ficção. Com o objetivo de refletir como os processos sócio-históricos da modernidade inserem-se nas produções ficcionais, visamos identificar como os discursos ideológicos do sistema capitalista e do patriarcado são representados na literatura produzida por essas autoras. Sustentamos, assim, uma perspectiva apoiada na relação entre literatura e sociedade e, nesse ponto, abordamos como as personagens são compostas a partir de um viés melancólico – considerando a perspectiva de Walter Benjamin – que se manifesta como representação de uma sociedade massificada e reificada, evidenciando a melancolia como um sentimento de perda que perpassa a experiência dos indivíduos.
This work is established from the comparative analysis between the characters Ana Clara in As Meninas of Lygia Fagundes Telles, and As Parceiras of Lya Luft. For that, fundamentally we started from the concepts presented by Antonio Candido and Mikhail Bahktin about the construction of character in fiction. In order to reflect how sociohistorical processes of modernity are part of the fictional productions, we aim to identify how the ideological discourses of capitalism and patriarchy are represented in the literature produced by these authors, Telles and Luft. We sustain, therefore, a view supported by the relationship between literature and society and at that point, we discuss how the characters are composed from a melancholic bias - considering the perspective of Walter Benjamin - which manifests itself as a representation of a massified and reified society, showing melancholy as a sense of loss that permeates the experience of individuals.
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Marchiori, Marluce Alves. "Luto e melancolia: no percurso dos enigmas de A noite escura e mais eu, de Lygia Fagundes Telles." Centro de Ensino Superior de Juiz de Fora (CES/JF), 2014. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6540.
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Este estudo analisa o sentimento de luto e de melancolia como elementos temáticos na obra A noite escura e mais eu, de Lygia Fagundes Telles (2009). Nesta pesquisa, buscou-se identificar as representações da morte e da solidão em alguns contos dessa obra. A ficção narrativa dos contos escolhidos instiga o insólito, podendo perpassar pelos problemas sociais e individuais presentes na vida. A tensão das narrativas marca os jogos do destino associados à procura da percepção sobre morte e solidão. Este estudo objetiva, portanto, identificar, nesta produção literária, as questões psicológicas que envolvem o fenômeno do luto e da melancolia – enigmas da vida – que o ser humano busca desvendar. Os contos “Boa noite, Maria”, “A rosa verde” e “Uma branca sombra pálida”, selecionados para a pesquisa, revelam reflexões sobre a existência humana, característica marcante na obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles. A escritora parece retratar, nessa coletânea, por meio das personagens, elementos do cotidiano e que permitem ao leitor questionamentos existenciais e uma (re)organização da vida e dos valores da sociedade. Seus escritos focalizam momentos particulares da vida de alguns protagonistas, que, quando em momentos narrativos, uma dramática percepção da realidade ou revelações subjetivas se impõem à consciência. Tal processo arrasta as personagens à dor e à lucidez. A pesquisa permite ressaltar que o luto e a melancolia são fenômenos encobertos por uma nuvem de incertezas que requer um aprofundamento não em busca de certezas, mas, sim, em busca de compreensão ou, pelo menos, aceitação. Tentar decifrar os enigmas da vida com o olhar sobre as inseguranças humanas foi um desafio.
This study analyses bereavement and melancholia feeling as thematic elements in Lygia Fagundes Telles´s book, A noite escura e mais eu (2009). In this research, we sought to identify death and loneliness representations in some tales of this work. The narrative fiction of chosen tales instigates the unusual and may pervade the social and individual problems that are found in life. The narratives tension brands fortune games that are related to the perception about death and loneliness. This study aims therefore to identify, in this literary production, psychological issues surrounding bereavement and melancholy phenomenon - riddles of life – that the human being seeks to discover. The tales "Boa noite, Maria", "A rosa verde" and "Uma branca sombra pálida", selected for the study reveal reflections on human existence, remarkable feature in Lygia Fagundes Telles´ work. The writer seems to portray, in this collection, through the characters, everyday elements that allow the reader existential questioning and (re) organization of life and society values. Her writings focus on particular moments of life of certain actors who, when in narrative moments, a reality dramatic perception or subjective revelations are brought to consciousness. This process leads the characters to pain and lucidity. The research lets highlight that bereavement and melancholia phenomena are veiled in a cloud of uncertainty that require further development not searching for certainties, but rather in search of understanding, or at least acceptance. Trying to decipher the riddles of life with the look on human insecurities was a challenge.
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Fowler, Rebekah Mary. "Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/336.
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This dissertation examines male bereavement in medieval literature, expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across genres and that has most often been absorbed into studies of lovesickness, madness, the wilderness, or more formalist concerns with genre, form, and literary convention, but has seldom been discussed in its own right. This pattern consists of love, loss, grief madness and/or melancholy, wilderness lament/consolation, and synthesis and application of information gleaned from the grieving process, which is found is diverse texts from the twelfth century romance of Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain to the fifteenth century dream vision/consolatio Pearl. A focused study of how bereavement is represented through this pattern gains us a deeper understanding of medieval conceptions of emotional expression and their connections to gender and status. In other words, this project shows how the period imagines gender and status not just as something one recognizes, but also something one feels. The judgments and representations of bereavement in these texts can be explained by closely examining the writings of such religious thinkers as Augustine and Aquinas, who borrow from the neo-Platonic and Aristotelian schools of thought, respectively, and both of whom address the potential sinfulness and vanity of excessive grief and the dangers for this excess to result in sinful behavior. This latter point is also picked up in medical treatises and encyclopedic works of the Middle Ages, such as those of Avicenna and Isidore of Seville, which are also consulted in this project. The medieval philosophical and medical traditions are blended with contemporary theories of gender, authenticity, and understanding, as well as an acknowledgement of the psychoanalytic contributions of Freud and Lacan. Through these theories, I explore the capacity for the men in these texts to move beyond the social strictures of masculinity in order to more authentically grieve over the loss of their loved ones, which often constitutes a type of lack. However, my purpose is not to view losses as lack, but rather, to see them as a positive impetus to push beyond the limits of social behavior in order to realize textually various outcomes and to suggest the limitations of such socially sanctioned conventions as literary forms, language, rituals, understanding, and consolation to govern the enactment of grief.
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Sghaier, Ezzedine. "Henri Pollès: recherches sur l'homme et l'oeuvre, une approche de la mélancolie." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212991.
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Sandbacka, K. (Kasimir). "Utopia derailed:Rosa Liksom's retrospection of the modern project." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2017. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526216027.
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Abstract Rosa Liksom is one of the most internationally recognized contemporary Finnish authors and leading Finnish postmodernists. Indeed, the postmodernist aesthetics of her works have received most of the academic attention: features such as irony, dark humor, intertextuality, and parody have been convincingly studied. Liksom’s singular public image has been connected to these aesthetics, but although her cosmopolitanism is often mentioned, her postmodern nonconformity has usually been read in a local and a national context. Liksom’s engagement with modernity has been only implicitly and insufficiently explicated. This dissertation focuses on Liksom’s works and public image in the broader historical context of the modern project in its 20th century legacy. The study of Liksom’s engagement with the utopianism of the modern project is paramount to a deeper understanding of the politico-ethical underpinnings of Liksom’s works and image. To examine Liksom’s retrospection of the modern project, this dissertation makes use of a broad range of theoretical approaches, which can be collectively summarized as contextual close reading. The central theoretical framework is Fredric Jameson’s theory of postmodernism. Other important theories are Linda Hutcehon’s theories of postmodernism and irony, Svetlana Boym’s typology of nostalgia, as well as Krishan Kumar’s theory of utopia. This study elucidates the complexity of Liksom’s engagement with the modern project and bestows new importance on the positive, constructive elements of Liksom’s works that have hitherto gained less attention. Liksom’s works try to salvage something from the history of the modern project instead of merely lingering in the negative attempt to deconstruct historical truths and dismantle the very possibility of such truths. Below the irony and criticism of utopianism in Liksom’s artistic ethos runs a mournful undercurrent that broods over the lack of agency and political choices we seem to face in our present historical condition, and a nostalgia that reflects upon the lost utopian potentialities of the past. Liksom’s works suggest this process of mourning may result in a tentative prospect of communion between people and cultures based on an understanding of their shared situatedness in a postmodern, uncertain worldTiivistelmä Rosa Liksom on kansainvälisesti tunnetuimpia suomalaisia nykykirjailijoita ja keskeisiä postmodernisteja. Akateeminen kiinnostus onkin keskittynyt ensisijaisesti hänen teostensa postmoderniin estetiikkaan: teosten ironiaa, musta huumoria, intertekstuaalisuutta ja parodiaa on tutkittu ansiokkaasti. Liksomin ainutlaatuinen taiteilijakuva on kytketty tähän estetiikkaan, mutta vaikka hänen kosmopoliittisuutensa usein mainitaankin, hänen postmodernia epäsovinnaisuuttaan on yleensä tulkittu lokaalissa ja kansallisessa viitekehyksessä. Toistaiseksi Liksomin suhdetta modernin ajan ihanteisiin on pohdittu vain välillisesti ja riittämättömästi. Tässä väitöskirjassa Liksomin teoksia ja julkisuuskuvaa käsitellään laajemmassa viitekehyksessä, nimittäin modernin projektin ja sen 1900-luvun perinnön kontekstissa. Ymmärtääksemme Liksomin teosten ja julkisuuskuvan poliittis-eettisiä perustuksia syvällisemmin on välttämätöntä tarkastella hänen suhdettaan moderniin utooppisuuteen. Tässä väitöskirjassa selvitetään monipuolisen teoreettisen välineistön avulla, kuinka Liksom retrospektiivisesti tarkastelee modernin projektia. Teoreettista lähestymistapaa voidaan kutsua kontekstuaaliseksi lähiluvuksi. Keskeinen teoreettinen viitekehys on Fredric Jamesonin postmodernismin teoria. Muita keskeisiä teorioita ovat Linda Hutcheonin teoria postmodernismista ja ironiasta, Svetlana Boymin nostalgian typologia, sekä Krishan Kumarin ja utopia-teoria. Liksomin taiteellisen eetoksen ironisuuden ja utopiakritiikin alla kulkee surumielinen pohjavire, joka pohtii nykyisessä historiallisessa tilanteessa kohtamaamme toimijuuden ja poliittisten vaihtoehtojen puutetta, ja nostalginen pohjavire, joka mietiskelee menetettyjä utooppisia mahdollisuuksia. Liksomin teoksiset antavat ymmärtää, että tämän suruprosessin tuloksena voi olla mahdollisuus löytää ihmisten ja kulttuurien välinen yhteys, joka perustuu ymmärrykseen siitä, että me kaikki paikannumme postmoderniin, epävarmaan maailmaan
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Brogan, Boyd. "The ethics of otium : pastoral, privacy and the passions 1559-1647." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f178e449-e48d-4794-bf75-5b7ecc950010.
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This thesis studies the literary genre of pastoral between 1559 and 1647. The first of these dates is that of a work that changed the course of early modern pastoral, Montemayor’s Diana; and the second marks the English translation of Gomberville’s Polexandre, a pastoral romance which exemplifies the shifts in cultural values that re-shaped Montemayor’s model over the century that followed its publication. My study focusses on the significance for this genre of the ethical quality known to classical moral philosophy as otium, and translated in early modern English by words such as peace, leisure, retirement, ease and idleness. Otium has strong historical associations with the tradition of Virgilian pastoral. Its significance in early modern pastorals, however, has been largely overlooked, despite the fact that early modern interest in otium had been revitalised by the rediscovery of some of its most important classical discussions. This renewed interest in otium, I argue, was essential to the development of early modern pastoral. My argument challenges both old and new critical perspectives on pastoral, and engages with key issues in early modern culture which literary scholars have neglected. Older studies understood pastoral otium simply as idyllic retreat; newer ones accept this view, but argue against its privileged and quietist political implications, preferring to concentrate on the tradition of interpreting pastoral as political allegory. Otium’s principal connotations, however, were neither quiet nor idyllic. Though its restorative qualities were sometimes cautiously acknowledged, otium’s potential to corrupt was ever-present, and affected a range of areas including privacy, politics, moral psychology and medicine. When people wanted to imaginatively explore those effects, I argue, pastoral was the genre to which they were most likely to turn. Listening to what pastorals say about otium can play an important role in reconstructing this crucial and misunderstood aspect of early modern culture.
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Morelato, Adrienne Kátia Savazoni [UNESP]. "As vestes do corpo e da melancolia na poesia de autoria feminina: Cecília Meireles, Gabriela Mistral e Henriqueta Lisboa." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151640.
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As Vestes do Corpo e da Melancolia na poesia de Autoria Feminina pretende analisar de que maneira três poetas, da metade do século XX, sulamericanas, costuraram suas obras poéticas de alguma forma, em comunhão. São poetas que levaram o título de ausentes do mundo, alheias às rupturas, individuais e egoístas, quando este trabalho descobriu exatamente ao contrário; suas obras estavam emaranhadas dentro de uma rede maior, continental, porém, uma rede formada somente por mulheres escritoras. Dentro dessa rede, nasceu uma sub-rede entre as três poetas em questão: Cecília Meireles, Gabriela Mistral e Henriqueta Lisboa. Assim, uma ciranda literária se formou em torno de temas, símbolos e mitos comuns. O corpo de mulher, visto como ausente para uma crítica falogocêntrica, agora é o protagonista de uma nova estética, a estética da ternura que traz em si, a força da melancolia. Melancolizar-se na escritura, eis o que é escrever com ternura para as nossas poetas e onde o corpo transfigura-se na paisagem para que as sensações possam transbordar a palavra. A palavra será a grande luta de todas as três, porque em sua composição carrega conceitos que não foram criados pelas mulheres. Para escrever como mulher, neste sentido, nossas poetas terão que buscar a origem, o mito, o sussurro, a oralidade murmurada que resgata o início de todos os inícios. Enquanto, em relação ao contexto da tradição, a busca será pela mãe literária — a poeta referencial para que elas possam construir uma nova tradição, só que agora, a de autoria feminina.
The Vestes of the Body and Melancholy in the Feminine Authorship poetry analyze how three South American poets, from the mid-twentieth century, stitched together his poetic works in some way, in communion. They are poets who took the title of absent from the world, oblivious to the ruptures, individual and selfish, when this work discovered exactly the opposite; his works were entangled within a network however, a network composed only of women writers. Inside of this network, a subnet was born between the three poets in question: Cecília Meireles, Gabriela Mistral and Henriqueta Lisboa. Thus, a literary ciranda formed around of common themes, symbols and myths. The woman's body, seen as absent for a criticism, is now the protagonist of a new aesthetic, the aesthetics of tenderness which brings in itself the force of melancholy. Melancholy in scripture, that's what it is to write with tenderness for our poets and where the body is transfigured in the landscape so that the sensations can overflow the word. The word will be the great struggle of all three, because in its composition it carries concepts that were not created by women. For writing as a woman, in this sense our poets will have to search for the origin, the myth, the whisper, the murmured orality that rescues the beginning of all beginnings. While in relation to the context of tradition, the search will be for the literary mother - the reference poet for that they can build a new tradition, only now, that of female authorship.
La ropa y la melancolía corporal en las mujeres autoría de la poesía tiene como objetivo examinar cómo los tres poetas, la mitad del siglo xx, américa del sur, se cosió la poesía, de alguna manera, en la comunión. Son poetas que tomaron el título lejos del mundo, ajenos a las fracturas, individuales y egoístas cuando este trabajo se ha encontrado exactamente lo contrario; sus obras estaban enredadas dentro de una red más amplia, continental, pero una red formada únicamente por mujeres escritoras. Dentro de esta red, nació una subred entre los tres poetas en cuestión: cecília meireles, gabriela mistral y henriqueta lisboa, en el que el tamiz literario formado en torno a temas, símbolos y mitos comunes. El cuerpo de la mujer, vista como ausente por una crítica falogocentrica, ahora es el protagonista de una nueva estética, la estética de la ternura que trae consigo, la fuerza de la melancolía. Melancolizar en la escritura, que es lo que es escribir con ternura para nuestros poetas y donde el cuerpo se transforma en el paisaje de modo que los sentimientos pueden derramarse sobre la palabra. La palabra es la gran lucha de los tres, debido a su composición lleva a conceptos que no fueron creados por las mujeres. Para escribir como mujer, en este sentido, nuestros poetas tienen que buscar el origen, el mito, el susurro, la oralidad en voz baja que rescata el comienzo de todos los comienzos. En comparación con el contexto tradicional, la búsqueda será la madre literaria -un poeta de referencia para que puedan construir una nueva tradición, pero ahora, los autores de sexo femenino.
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Winton, T. E. (Tracey Eve). "Why architects wear black and other grotesque and sublime mysteries : being a demonstration of eros & melancholy in the hermetical art of architecture with reference to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Colonna wherein he showeth, that all things human are but a dream ; in the representation whereof are many things figured salutary and worthy in remembrance." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27478.
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A study of the symbolism of love and melancholy in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an architectural treatise of the Italian Renaissance written as a dream, in which an alchemical narrative structures the shaping of an adept through the education of his cognitive faculties. This author has speculated on the representational strategies of this satyrical and literary architecture and translated into English several key passages from the hero's rhythmythical journey through a musaic architectural wonderland.
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Pearl, Monica B. "Alien tears : mourning, melancholia, and identity in AIDS literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4310/.
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This thesis examines the literary response to the AIDS crisis. It concentrates on literature produced between 1988 and 1995, published in English, and available in Britain and the United States. The AIDS texts investigated here are representative of other AIDS literature produced during this time period in the way that they both enact and construct the identities of those affected by AIDS. Mourning and melancholia are the operative responses revealed in the literature, and revealed as the formative components of changing identities in response to AIDS and its manifestations. The thesis is structured in six chapters: a theoretical introductory chapter that proposes mourning and loss as pre-existing concerns in gay men's literature, followed by a chapter addressing gay AIDS fiction and its narrative response to mourning. The next two chapters examine hybrid texts, that is, AIDS texts that do not conform to a conventional narrative form, and that are connected more firmly to a queer sensibility than to a gay identity. These texts, the thesis claims, are engaged with the processes (and resistances) of melancholia rather than with the work of mourning. The subsequent chapter addresses fictions of caretaking and witnessing, that is, novels written from the point of view of one who is caring for an other ill with AIDS. These are identified as more mainstream texts as they involve representations that are not connected to declared sexual identities and therefore mean to address a wider audience and to work out a more public discourse of grief around AIDS. In conclusion, the thesis suggests that although AIDS literature is involved in an effort to resist loss through narrative form, in fact it is the literature that in some instrumental ways makes the work of mourning and melancholia in response to AIDS productive rather than debilitating.
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Augusto, Daniel Sampaio. "Um assunto de silêncios: estudo sobre o \'Cara-de-bronze\'." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-05102007-150151/.
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Análise e interpretação do conto \"Cara-de-Bronze\", escrito por João Guimarães Rosa. Esta obra sintetiza a idéia que o autor tem da poesia, marcada pela extensa tradição de escritos dedicados ao estudo de Saturno e da melancolia. O confronto dessa tradição, a partir da leitura que lhe deu Walter Benjamin, com o conto, descortina aspectos enigmáticos da narrativa, e revela elementos fundamentais da concepção de mundo do autor, importantes para a literatura, a critica literária e a filosofia da arte.Analysis and interpretation of the short story \"Cara-de-Bronze\" (\"Bronze Face\"), written by João Guimarães Rosa. This work synthesizes the idea the author has towards poetry, remarked by the long tradition of writings dedicated to the study of Saturn and of melancholy. The confront of such tradition, based on the reading by Walter Benjamin, with the short story, unveils enigmatic aspects of the narrative, and reveals essential elements of the author\'s conception of the world, important for literature, literary criticism and the philosophy of art.
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Lentsch-Griffin, Aurélie. "L'Urania de Lady Mary Wroth (1587 ? - 1651 ?) : une poétique de la mélancolie." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030141.
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Première femme à publier un roman en Angleterre, Lady Mary Wroth (1587 ?-1651 ?) est l’auteur d’une œuvre profondément marquée par la mélancolie. En 1621, soit la même année que la première édition de l’Anatomie de la mélancolie de Robert Burton, elle publie sous son propre nom un roman pastoral, The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, suivi d’un recueil de poèmes intitulé Pamphilia to Amphilanthus en référence au couple central du roman. De la représentation du paysage à la structure narrative en passant par les symptômes physiques et psychologiques que manifeste l’ensemble des personnages, la mélancolie est partout dans ce roman. Maladie érudite et culturelle propre à une élite sociale mais réservée aux hommes lorsqu’elle révèle les génies, objet d’une véritable mode dans l’Angleterre du dix-septième siècle, la mélancolie devient pour Lady Mary Wroth l’instrument privilégié de la légitimation de son projet romanesque. Le roman se caractérise en effet par une poétique de la mélancolie qui se traduit par la mise en scène réflexive de l’écriture, par une écriture noire typiquement maniériste dans laquelle l’auteur s’affirme en se niant. Mais la mélancolie est aussi dans ce roman le symptôme d’un monde en crise dans lequel les valeurs morales qui ont triomphé à l’époque élisabéthaine, telles que l’héroïsme martial, sont désormais obsolètes. Le roman présente le sombre tableau d’un monde déchu sans espoir de rachat. En imitant aussi systématiquement l’Arcadie de Sidney – dont Wroth était la nièce –, l’Urania met en scène une nostalgie littéraire qui souligne l’incapacité de l’auteur à égaler ses modèles, mais fait parallèlement de cet aveu d’échec l’affirmation de sa propre légitimitéLady Mary Wroth (1587 ? -1651 ?), who was the first woman to publish a prose romance in England, authored works that are pervaded by melancholy. In 1621 – the same year as the first edition of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy – she published a single volume containing her pastoral romance The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and a sonnet sequence entitled Pamphilia to Amphilanthus which refers to the main couple in the romance. Melancholy is an overwhelming presence in Urania, as it appears not only in the setting and in the characters’ bodies and minds, but in the narrative structure of the romance as well. In seventeenth-century England, there was a well-known fashion for melancholy, which was seen as a sign of nobility and cultural genius, but only as far as men were concerned. Lady Mary Wroth uses melancholy to legitimize her authorial position inside the romance. Urania, indeed, is characterized by a poetics of melancholy which appears both in a self-conscious representation of the writing process and in a black, mannerist style which enables Wroth to make a claim for the legitimacy of her works by denying her own agency in them. Melancholy also functions as the symptom of moral decline, as the moral values which triumphed in the Elizabethan period, such as martial heroism, now appear irrevocably obsolete. The romance portrays a fallen world which reveals no hope of redemption whatsoever. In its systematic imitation of Sidney’s Arcadia, Urania showcases a literay nostalgia which enables Wroth to affirm her own authorial position by demonstrating her inability to equal her models
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Dzika-Jurek, Kamila. "Problem ciężaru : melancholia w twórczości Magdaleny Tulli." Doctoral thesis, Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/5562.
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The basic aim of this dissertation is to describe the melancholic dimension (with a particular focus on the source of this emotion) of Magdalena Tulli’s works – one of the most interesting contemporary Polish writers. At the same time, it is a completely new look at the prose of the Warsaw writer because up to now researchers and critics dealing with Tulli’s writings have pointed out their far from melancholic – even provocatively “light,” postmodern character. To the works of the Warsaw prose writer stuck, among others, the stigmatizing term of “the literature made of literature” that simultaneously denied these novels referential abilities. The author of dissertation, on the contrary, already at the beginning of her paper formulates the research hypothesis, according to which all novels of the Warsaw writer – from the debut novel Dreams and Stones to the latest, published in 2014 Noise – have the same bitter, melancholic tone and carry a “burden” of a real (autobiographical?) story.
Most researchers seemed not to notice that self-referential stories from Tulli’s writings may refer to a specific reality. They wrote about them that they are merely a “technique exercise in fictionalization”, and motifs of this prose that they found obscure, described as “writing eccentricity.” Only the publication in 2011 of autobiographical (“easy” – according to the author) Italian High Heels, as it turned out, finally allowed Tulli to “communicate” with readers – as she described in one of interviews – in “the issue that was important to her.” This “issue” is the trauma of war and concentration camp which the writer’s mother somehow survived as well as the entire, as Tulli writes in Italian High Heels,” “energy of violence” and contempt which resulted from this and long after the war still destroyed people’s lives, unfortunately, including the life of the author of Moving Parts, just at its beginning – the writer’s childhood. Therefore, the sad background of the author’s life, as it turns out the source of melancholy in her works, became in some way the background of this dissertation.
Before the publication of autobiographical Italian High Heels, when reading Tulli’s novels I wondered about remarkable consistency with which the writer uses certain metaphors in her prose and the presence of recurring motifs in these writings. Since even if – I thought at this time – assuming that the fundamental lack of plot in the works of the author of Dreams and Stones justifies their “postmodern” reading, why such talented and after all appreciated author would continuously write books about the same thing? Thus, the most important question to me seemed to be: what is the reason behind the Warsaw writer’s persistence in the style – in the “letter” of the novel, its constructions, means of imagery.
Autobiographical character of Italian High Heels confirmed my previous assumptions and inclined me to the deeper insight into this artistic offering which at its sources turned out to be profoundly melancholic. The writing of Magdalena Tulli was literally simply built on the trauma, on the early (childhood) experience of lack and loss. Revealed by the writer in Italian High Heels and in the latest novel Noise painful facts from her biography (above all a toxic relationship with her mother) turned out to be this “burden” – the figure that consistently from the debut appeared in Tulli’s writings, and which with some intuition and interest I followed from my first reading of these texts.
At the same time, becoming familiar with the state of research on the topic of melancholy, allowed me to formulate the assumption about the constant presence of the figure of burden in melancholy: from the moment of the appearance of the famous Hippocrates’ humoural theory till the present day (for instance, in Antoni Kępiński’s psychiatric works). Therefore, although melancholy can be described from many different perspectives (aesthetic, anthropological, existential, philosophical, etc.) in many different terms and languages (Latin – acedia, Greek – splen and English – spleen, ennui, Danish – Tungsind, etc.) – in every case they contain the element of gravity or burden. That is why the starting point of my dissertation and “research background” to interpret selected Tulli’s writings is the synthetic look at the melancholy presented throughout the centuries by artists and scientists, with special emphasis on the significance (“rank”) of the figure of burden and synonymous figures.
In essence, the entire prose of the Warsaw writer (what I note scrupulously in every analytical part of my dissertation) is steeped in the imagery of burden. Why? This question is answered by the author of In Red herself, since in the centre of her two last novels (Italian High Heels and Noise) she puts her mother – former prisoner of concentration camps. Simultaneously, in this way Tulli reveals that at the foundation of the world in which she lives (and which is the prototype for the world of her novel) lies her toxic relationship with her mother. The Warsaw prose writer writes literally about the “burden” of suffering which her mother bears since the war and the part of which she always tried to “transfer” onto her child (Tulli).
This issue reveals in the depiction of melancholy as a posttraumatic disease. Its main cause is the "touch" of history, sensual experience the trauma of war that was marked the writer’s mother so painfully. That is why the author of Flaw metaphorizes melancholy in her writings also as “an infection” of memory which contaminates consecutive generations of the Shoah (the second, third etc.) and which has become the experience of the Warsaw writer. As a result, we are born into a reality which already carries a certain “burden”. The space of Central Europe, once the epicenter of the Shoah, is a special example thereof. It is a space where the “burden” of the substance of the Shoah can sometimes be felt through the senses. The matter building the contemporary world still contains elements of the war, a material trace of the war – ashes of human bodies, “fat” clay in which the victims of the war were buried. That is why the tangibility of the world after the Shoah is so important in the works of the author of The Lottery. The most important representation of this landscape destroyed by the war is, literally, the mother from Italian High Heels whom her daughter describes as “the empire”. It is her who carries the biggest burden in this world, attempting to pass on some of the “weight” to the child. Her particular, cold attitude towards the world and people close to her, the cold “icy blue” stare and “stiffened” poses she assumes are to metaphorize this coldness and emptiness of the post-war (post-concentration camp) world where long after the war bonds between people will still be undermined by the floating “energy of suffering, sorrow and hatred”. This energy is absorbed by the children, consecutive generations “poisoned” in a metaphorical and literal (via genes) sense by the Shoah.
When read from this perspective, the works of Magdalena Tulli reveal their extremely interesting rhythm. They emerge as an example of a mature, “full” literary structure, planned by the author herself to the tiniest details in which some aspects of a melancholic's life resurface in a compulsive (unconscious) manner. This indicates a special meaning of the interpretation of these works, which, for insightful readers, discloses new possibilities of literary study of these writings: penetrating the “areas” which no science apart from philology feels competent to access, studying today (what the author of In Red seems to be especially aware of) the text as “an adventure of the body and signs”.
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Chan, Wai-chung, and 陳慧聰. "The discourse of the body, abjection, melancholia and carnival." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952562.
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Chan, Wai-chung. "The discourse of the body, abjection, melancholia and carnival." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22199676.
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Benedict, Mark Russell. "The Ministry of Passion and Meditation: Robert Southwell's Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares and the Adaptation of Continental Influences." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/79.
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In his most popular prose work, Mary Magdalens Funeral Teares (1591), English Jesuit Robert Southwell adapts the Mary Magdalene tradition by incorporating the meditative practices of St. Ignatius Loyola coupled with the Petrarchan language of poetry. Thus, he creates a prose work that ministered to Catholic souls, appealed to Protestant audiences, and initiated the literature of tears in England. Southwell readapts the traditional image of Mary Magdalene for a Catholic Early Modern audience by utilizing the techniques of Jesuit meditation, which later flourished in the weeper texts of Richard Crashaw and George Herbert. His vividly imagined scenes also employ the Petrarchan and Ovidian language of longing and absence and coincide with both traditional and mystic early church writers such as Bernard and Augustine. Through this combination, Southwell’s Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares resonated with Catholics deprived of both ministry and the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. These contributions solidify Southwell’s place as a pivotal figure in the religious and literary contexts of Early Modern England.
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Kim, Rina. "Beyond mourning and melancholia : women and Ireland as Beckett's lost others." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4108/.
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Beckett's female characterization in his later works is, in marked contrast to his earlier work, broadly in sympathy with the notion of 'feminine' style and feminist concerns. Yet in his earlier texts, the female is grotesque, devouring, sexually provocative, and silenced. It can be argued that Beckett's representations of the female and Ireland intersect, and change as his relationship to Ireland and an Anglo-Irish tradition changes. Proposing that Beckett's self-imposed exile has influenced such changes, this thesis, using a psychoanalytic framework, traces discourses of mourning, melancholia and abjection in his works, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss in the psychoanalytic model. By exploring the correlations between the representations of Ireland and the female throughout Beckett's oeuvre, this thesis aims to shed new light on Beckett's literary practice as well as contributing to the fields of Irish and feminist studies.
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Vu, Dorothy. "“Maternal Melancholia”: Reading Diasporic Asian Canadian Motherwork in the Fictions of Kerri Sakamoto, Hiromi Goto, and Madeleine Thien." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31802.
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What does it mean for an immigrant to be a “good” mother? Asian immigrants in Canada experience pressures to assimilate to a “normal,” homogenous ideal of Canadian culture—to erase aspects of their own cultural identity as well as their diasporic history. Asian mothers specifically are subject to mothering ideologies that depict white, middle-class, happy mothers as the norm. This thesis examines literary depictions of this phenomenon in novels by Kerri Sakamoto, Hiromi Goto, and Madeleine Thien. Each of these authors offers representations of motherhood that counter racialized and gendered ideals of mothering, and that refuse to ignore the sometimes traumatic effects that diaspora can have on immigrant families. Through David Eng and Shinhee Han’s notion of “racial melancholia”, I argue that the mothers in these novels conduct “maternal melancholia,” a form of motherwork that subverts dominant ideologies of mothering, resists assimilation, and sustains losses incurred through racialization and diaspora.
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Sharma, Natasha. ""I AM FIRST AN ADOPTEE”: HAPPINESS, RACIAL MELANCHOLIA, AND TRANSNATIONALITY IN ASIAN TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1427304102.
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Moulière, Ludivine. "Le Poète tardif. Mélancolie, vieillesse et poétique du déclin dans l’œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet." Thesis, Pau, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PAUU1065/document.
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L’omniprésence du thème du vieillissement dans la poésie de Philippe Jaccottet a déjà été relevée par de nombreux critiques. Mais elle n’avait encore jamais fait l’objet d’une analyse spécifique. Cette thèse de Ludivine Moulière, rédigée sous la direction d’Isabelle Chol, au sein du laboratoire Arts-Langage / Transitions et Relations de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, et intitulée Le Poète tardif, mélancolie, vieillesse et poétique du déclin dans l’œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet, entreprend de combler cette lacune en analysant, dans l’œuvre poétique et critique, les représentations de la vieillesse. Pour ce faire, comme y invite la théorie humorale exposée dans Saturne et la mélancolie (Klibansky, Panofsky, Saxl), le vieillir a été mis en lien avec la mélancolie, comprise dans plusieurs de ses acceptions. Ordonnant d’abord l’imaginaire de l’œuvre à la lumière de l’iconologie mélancolique, sont exposés les liens qu’entretient la représentation des éléments avec celles des âges de la vie, des saisons et des tempéraments. Cela permet de dégager l’humeur mélancolique qui informe la perception du monde en une structure bipolaire ou antithétique. Cette approche iconologique et phénoménologique laisse ensuite la place à une approche plus historique et sociologique. L’analyse des représentations de l’urbain et du jardin montre que la nostalgie, en contredisant l’héritage des Lumières et son idéal progressiste, donne au mouvement de l’histoire la forme d’un déclin graduel, qui rapproche l’historiographie jaccottéenne de l’historiographie romantique. Enfin, le commentaire de la poétique ou de la « poéthique » (Pinson) de Philippe Jaccottet montre de quelle manière l’écriture est infléchie par l’expérience du temps et de la vieillesse. La figuration du poète en « grave vieillard falcifère » (Steinmetz) s’avère ainsi participer d’une conversion axiologique à la fois de la vieillesse et de la mélancolie, en en faisant d’une part la condition d’une aspiration vers l’infini et d’un retour vers la finitude, et d’autre part le principe d’élaboration de l’éthopée jaccottéenne aussi bien que l’aboutissement de la quête lyrique de son identitéMany critics have already noticed the omnipresence of the theme of old age in Philippe Jaccottet’s work, yet it has never been the object of a specific analysis. Ludivine Moulière’s thesis, entitled The Late Poet, Melancholy, Old Age and Poetic of Decline, written under the direction of Isabelle Chol at the laboratory Arts-Language / Transitions and Relationships of the University of Pau, fills this gap by analyzing the representations of old age within poetic and critical works. Ageing is linked to melancholy as understood in several of its meanings, along the lines of humoral theory as developed in Saturn and Melancholy (Klibansky, Panofsky, Saxl). Firstly, the work’s imaginative realm is organized through the melancholic iconology model in order to show relationships between the representation of the elements and the ages of life, seasons and temperaments. As a result, a melancholic mood is shown to shape perception into a bipolar or antithetic structure. This iconological and phenomenological approach is followed by a more historical and sociological one. The analysis of the representations of urbanity and gardens shows that nostalgia gives the form of a gradual decline to the movement of history, unlike the Enlightenment Legacy and its idea of progress, bringing Jaccottet’s historiography closer to romantic historiography. Finally, the commentary on Jaccottet’s poetic or « po-ethic » (Pinson) shows how his writing is tempered by experience of time and old age. The image of the poet as a « grave old man carrying a sickle » (Steinmetz) proves to fall within an axiological conversion of both old age and melancholy making it, on the one hand, the condition of an aspiration towards infinity and a return to finitude, and on the other hand the elaboration of the Jaccottean ethopoeia as well as the outcome of the lyrical quest for his identity
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Jinks, Sean Ernest. "Writing the unwritable : melancholia in the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13998/.
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This study seeks to show how the literary legacy of Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894-1958) can productively be understood as a sustained textual engagement with the writer's own melancholia. Drawing equally on present-day critical approaches which increasingly emphasize the unity of life and art in the works of Zoshchenko, and on a psychoanalytically-influenced model of textual melancholia, this study posits and analyzes a melancholy component of the broader comic aesthetic that typified Zoshchenko's early work and on which, to a large degree, Zoshchenko's reputation still rests today. The study then proceeds to trace the development of this textual melancholia beyond its aesthetic representation in earlier works to show an increasingly direct discursive elaboration of the condition in works written after 1927. This evolution in the textual refraction of the writer's melancholia is shown to extend into the writer's later 'medical' works where they acquire a more or less explicit therapeutic function and become a kind of culturally nuanced Soviet language of melancholia. This development is contextualised by reference to Soviet conceptions of mental illness and a Soviet medical establislunent characterized by an unusually dominant physiological understanding of the mind. Throughout, the study aims to demonstrate how a reading of the Zoshchenko oeuvre in terms of melancholia can deepen and broaden critical understandings of this enigmatic writer, opening up a hitherto neglected ideational component of Zoshchenko's art.
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Westberg, Nathalie. "Melankoli, isolering, galenskap och död i verk av Edgar Allan Poe och Howard Phillips Lovecraft." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96256.
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Denna uppsats undersöker gotiska teman som melankoli, isolering, galenskap och död i verk av Edgar Allan Poe och Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Utgångspunkt är följande forskningsfråga: På vilket sätt framträder melankoli, isolering, galenskap och död i de olika verken, samt vilka är likheterna och skillnaderna mellan hur temana framkommer? Metoden är grundad i tematisk analys, intertextualitet och komparation. De verk som analyseras i uppsatsen är Poes The Fall of The House Usher, Ligeia och Berenice. Verk av Lovecraft som analyserats är Cthulhu, The Color out of Space, The Tomb och Polaris. Resultaten visar att alla teman finns närvarande i verk av båda författarna, men att de tar olika former. Poes melankoli är till exempel mycket närmare hans karaktärer än Lovecrafts melankoli, som är mer kopplade till miljöer och objekt. Vidare visar undersökningen bland annat också att Poe inte fokuserar på fysiska dödsbeskrivningar utan på andra typer av död. Lovecrafts dödsbeskrivningar å andra sidan är mer externa och kopplade till monster.This essay examines the presence of what is considered to be gothic themes such as melancholy, isolation, madness and death in works of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The following research question was formulated: In what way do melancholy, isolation, madness, and death appear in the various works, and what are the similarities and differences between how the themes emerge? Methods of thematic analysis, intertextuality and comparison are used. The works analysed in the essay are Poe’s The Fall of The House Usher, Ligeia and Berenice. The works analysed are also Lovecraft’s The call of Cthulhu, The Colour out of Space, The Tomb and Polaris. The results show that all the themes are present in works by both authors, but that they take different forms. Poe’s melancholy is for example much closer to his characters than Lovecrafts melancholy, which are more connected to environments and objects. The study also shows among other things, that Poe does not focus on physical death descriptions but on other types of death. Lovecraft's death descriptions on the other hand, are more external and linked to monsters.
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Cheng, Ka-wai Eunice, and 鄭嘉慧. "The melancholia of the solitary man: history,memory and identity in one hundred years of solitude." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953396.
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Le, Meec-Colson Béatrice. "Des « réminiscences » aux « tableaux poétiques » : Sturm und Drang et tendance sentimentale dans l’œuvre de Karl Philipp Moritz." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040233.
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La découverte d’œuvres du Sturm und Drang et de la tendance sentimentale (allemande et anglaise) fut pour le jeune K. Ph. Moritz une expérience déterminante, aussi bien pour le développement de sa personnalité que pour ses débuts comme écrivain. Nous avons entrepris d’étudier les différentes « traces » laissées par cette littérature dans les écrits de l’auteur, ainsi que leur évolution, notamment dans le cadre d’une pratique de l’intertextualité transformant de simples « réminiscences » littéraires en procédés d’écriture maîtrisés, voire même en « tableaux poétiques ». Nous analysons tout d’abord la réception du Sturm und Drang et de la tendance sentimentale par Anton Reiser (« double » du jeune Moritz) comme lecteur, poète et spectateur, réception « mise en scène » par l’auteur dans son roman autobiographique Anton Reiser. Nous tentons ensuite de montrer comment Moritz, entre 1780 et 1790, prend de la distance avec « l’enthousiasme » caractérisant sa réception de jeunesse de ces courants, sur lesquels il pose désormais un regard « éclairé » et objectif, depuis son point de vue d’écrivain, de critique littéraire et de psychologue empirique des « Lumières tardives », rejetant l’outrance dans le tragique, critiquant la Schwärmerei et observant les « maladies de l’âme ». Enfin, nous consacrons notre dernière partie au point de vue « esthétique » depuis lequel Moritz considère certaines œuvres du « temps des génies » (particulièrement Les Souffrances du jeune Werther), qui trouvent également leur place dans la théorie littéraire de l’auteur (exposée dans plusieurs écrits publiés après son séjour en Italie, entre 1792 et 1794), et dans sa pratique de la description de paysagesTo discover works from the Sturm und Drang (« Storm and stress ») movement and from the sentimental trend (German and British) was a determining experience to the young Karl Philipp Moritz, for the development of his personality as well as for the beginning of his career as a writer. The present study aims at researching the « traces » left by this literature in Moritz’ work, and their evolution, in particular through intertextuality, which transforms simple literary « reminiscences » into mastered literary techniques, even into « poetic pictures ». First we analyse the reception of the Sturm und Drang and of Sentimentalism by Anton Reiser (« double » of Moritz in his youth) as reader, poet and spectator, reception « represented » by Moritz in his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser. We then examine how the author, between 1780 and 1790, distances himself from his former « enthusiastic » reception of those literary trends: from now on, he considers them from his « enlightened » and objective point of view as a novelist, a dramatist, a critic and an empirical psychologist of the « Late Enlightenment », rejecting excesses in tragedy, criticising the Schwärmerei and studying the « diseases of the soul ». The last part of our study is devoted to the « aesthetic » point of view, from which Moritz considers some works from the sentimental trend and from the Sturm und Drang (in particular The Sorrows of the Young Werther), which have also found a place in the literary theory of the author (expounded in several writings published between 1792 and 1794, after Moritz’ stay in Italy) and in his pratice of landscape description
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Kitzmann, Andreas Gernot. "The melancholic hypertext : the fate of the writer in the tangential narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39932.
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This thesis examines the nature of an electronic medium known as hypertext in relation to the act and experience of writing and expression. Essential to the thesis is a conviction that the experiential realm that is created by a particular medium of communication and/or representation is capable of also creating new 'habits of mind' or 'worldings.' These two concepts are indicative of the intensity of experience that is made available via an expressive act and the extent to which the various aspects of this intensity are capable of transformations on personal and public levels.One of the central issues of the thesis is an ongoing re-evaluation of the euphoric claims that trumpet hypertext as usurping the so-called tyranny of the book and the domain of linear thinking in general. In many evaluations of the medium, hypertext is commonly presented as a communications medium that offers a far greater panorama of choices and freedoms than does the printed word and, in addition, is far closer to the way in which the human mind 'actually works.' One of the intentions of this project is to not only critique and study such claims but also to explore their numerous offshoots with respect to cultural, philosophical and ideological practices and techniques. Thus, this thesis unfolds via four major thematic clusters that each, in its own way, challenges and probes at the emerging medium of hypertext as it relates to the activity and cultural practice of writing itself.
The first of these clusters is organized around the challenges and problems of constructing an appropriate interpretive methodology with which to approach hypertext. The second cluster offers an analysis of hypertext's defining characteristics and their relation to melancholy, isolation and anxiety. What follows is an analysis of the major figures in the history of hypertext and their relationship to the dynamics of power and knowledge. The thesis concludes with a meditation on how the act of writing (electronic or otherwise) has profound implications on the very structure and form of the creative human mind and world.
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Cheng, Ka-wai Eunice. "The melancholia of the solitary man history, memory and identity in one hundred years of solitude /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31953396.
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Kemp, Anna Francina. "Die onontkombaarheid van die verlede." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02222010-172655.
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Pereira, Wagner da Matta. "Um olho torto na literatura de Graciliano Ramos." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16140.
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Previous issue date: 2008-07-01This dissertation analyses, within a psychoanalytical e literary perspective, the enigma of blindness in Graciliano Ramos s work. The approach takes into account, mainly, the narratives of Hist?rias de Alexandre (Alexandre s tales) and Inf?ncia (Childhood memories) as both books speak of the same theme: the injured eye. The writer s work is scourged so that a broaden symbolism regarding the hurt eye can be found. The subject is discussed from three significant elements: fragmentation, helplessness and melancholy; all these form the creative aesthetic of Graciliano, merging into a single object. Fragmentation representing the internal shattered world of his characters, which is reflected in the environment; helplessness, directly related to feelings of rejection; and melancholy, characterized by a strong feeling of emptiness. The theme of isolation and loss is discussed based on Mourning and melancholy, by Freud, and other theorizers. There is also a brief dialogue with the Romantic and philosophical theories, which tries to explain the melancholic condition in the individual before moments of distress. Such theories are the support for the understanding of the helplessness of the hero in Graciliano Ramos?s literature and for the assumption that the blindness in the mistreated boy of the book Inf?ncia could be the language of the traumatic aspect that colors the entire text of the writer. As matter of fact, it constitutes in the lost object represented in the anguish of the author s characters
Este trabalho analisa, dentro de uma perspectiva psicanal?tica e liter?ria, o enigma da cegueira na obra do escritor Graciliano Ramos. A abordagem sobre tal aspecto privilegia as narrativas de Hist?rias de Alexandre e Inf?ncia, pois ambos os livros falam de um mesmo tema: o olho ferido. Busca-se, em toda a obra do autor, uma simbologia maior para essa chaga que impregna tanto o texto de fic??o quanto o de mem?ria. O assunto ? abordado a partir de tr?s elementos significativos: a fragmenta??o, o desamparo e a melancolia. Todos estes integram a est?tica criativa de Graciliano, formando um ?nico objeto. A fragmenta??o representando o esfacelamento interno de seus personagens, refletido no mundo exterior; o desamparo, diretamente relacionado ao sentimento de rejei??o familiar e social; e a melancolia, caracterizada pelo forte sentimento de solid?o, pelo saudosismo profundo que envolve toda a obra. O tema do isolamento e da perda ? discutido tendo como base Luto e melancolia, de Freud, e na an?lise de outros te?ricos que discutem o mesmo assunto. Trava-se, ainda, um breve di?logo com as teorias rom?nticas e filos?ficas, as quais tentaram explicar o estado melanc?lico do indiv?duo diante de momentos angustiantes. Tais teorias servem de suporte para a compreens?o do desamparo do her?i em Graciliano Ramos e para conjeturar que a cegueira no menino maltratado de Inf?ncia seria a linguagem do aspecto traum?tico. Esta linguagem perpassa o discurso do escritor, marcando-o com a fragmenta??o e a falta, constituindo-se no objeto perdido que se revela na ang?stia de seus personagens