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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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Derrida, Jacques, and Michal Ben-Naftali. "Abraham's Melancholy." Oxford Literary Review 39, no. 2 (December 2017): 153–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2017.0220.

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This interview with Michal Ben-Naftali from March 2004 is one of Derrida's last. It begins with the question of the relationship between love, law, and justice and then moves on to discuss everything from the secret, hospitality, friendship, sacrifice, pardon and psychoanalysis to the relationship between deconstruction and melancholy.
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Alvizu, Josh. "Melancholy as Landscape: Benjamin, Pamuk, Sebald, Süreya." Comparative Literature Studies 60, no. 2 (May 2023): 336–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0336.

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ABSTRACT This article locates the work of Walter Benjamin, Orhan Pamuk, W. G. Sebald, and Cemal Süreya in a minor tradition of writers preoccupied with melancholy since the Baroque. By pushing the notion of melancholy outside the experience of the individual subject, melancholy can be understood beyond its inherited descriptions, which treat it either as an impetus for artistic creativity or as a medical condition. Instead, drawing on work in global modernist studies and ecocriticism, melancholy can be productively considered relationally and nonanthropocentrically. This article traces how in İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir (Istanbul: Memories and the City), Pamuk, channeling strands of Islamic melancholy (ḥuzn), closely links the Turkish notion of hüzün (Turkish melancholy) to landscape (manzara), which notably troubles the human–nonhuman divide. Then it will be shown how Sebald’s lamentations on destruction and the ruinated landscape in his poetry and the novel Die Ringe des Saturn (Rings of Saturn) both collapse distinctions between nature and culture and articulate a melancholy at the extremes of visual perception. In closing, a reading of Cemal Süreya’s poem “Fotoğraf” (“Photograph”) brings the work of all three authors together under the notion of a promising and critical “melancholy present.”
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LASSCHE, K. "Melancholy of Love." Spiegel der Letteren 36, no. 2 (August 1, 1994): 107–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/sdl.36.2.2005538.

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Cooper, Henry R., Aleš Debeljak, Richard Jackson, and Michael Biggins. "Chronicle of Melancholy." World Literature Today 64, no. 4 (1990): 669. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40147020.

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Bell, Matthew. "Kleist and Melancholy." Publications of the English Goethe Society 78, no. 1-2 (March 2009): 11–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174962809x399733.

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Ikkos, George. "Saturn: star of melancholy – psychiatry in literature." British Journal of Psychiatry 219, no. 5 (November 2021): 613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.87.

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Yeon-Sook Kim. "Genealogy of ‘Melancholy’ Appeared in Korean Literature." KOREAN EDUCATION ll, no. 88 (August 2011): 419–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15734/koed..88.201108.419.

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Wilkinson, John W., László Krasznahorkai, and George Szirtes. "The Melancholy of Resistance." World Literature Today 76, no. 1 (2002): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40157119.

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Frankel, Richard. "Digital Melancholy." Jung Journal 7, no. 4 (September 2013): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19342039.2013.840231.

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Gaillard, Theodore L. "Keats's Ode on Melancholy." Explicator 53, no. 1 (October 1994): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1994.9938804.

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Aliyev, Javid. "Nizami, Profane Love and the Melancholy Tradition: Uncovering Amor Heroes in the Indian Princess’ Tale in Seven Beauties." arcadia 58, no. 2 (November 1, 2023): 243–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2014.

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Abstract Nizami Ganjavi’s fourth epic poem, Seven Beauties offers a cohesive picture of many variations or ‘colors’ of love and occupies a prominent position in his prolific oeuvre. Although much has been written on mystical love in Nizami’s works, the status of profane love remains somewhat neglected. A concept introduced through the Latin translation of an Arabic medical treatise on love during the medieval period, studies on profane love gave rise to a specific form of melancholy, referred as amor heroes or love-melancholy in various medico-literary texts. As a polymath, it can be speculated that Nizami’s interests in medicine probably extended to this type of amorous sickness. Upon close reading of the famous tale “King of Black”, clear parallels can be discerned between the literary depiction of the love-lorn king and the medical symptoms of love-melancholy. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to elucidate this connection by drawing on the Galenic and Arabic medical texts on love and melancholy, which eventually influenced Nizami and found its reverberations in the tale of the Indian Princess in Seven Beauties.
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Musiał, Łukasz. "Czy radość może być w literaturze równie filozoficzna co melancholia? Garść wstępnych myśli." Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, no. 1(7) (April 24, 2024): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/flpi.2024.07.02.

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Can joy be as philosophical in literature as melancholy? The article is devoted to this question. In discussing the issue, the author focuses in particular on the 18th century and Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The publication of this novel and its reception can be considered as a turning point in the history of so-called high literature, which from then on will generally favor melancholy as the central existential human experience, and as the most philosophical one.
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Sudbery, Anthony. "Dürer's magic tesseract." Mathematical Gazette 97, no. 538 (March 2013): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025557200005374.

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Albrecht Dürer's mysterious engraving Melencolia I (Figure 1) has always intrigued both art critics and mathematicians. Among art critics, according to Campbell Dodgson [1], “The literature on the Melancholia is more extensive than that on any other engraving by Dürer” (he adds “the statement would probably remain true if the last two words were omitted”). Mathematicians, if disconcerted by the association between mathematics and melancholy, have been fascinated by the objects appearing in the print, such as the polyhedron occurring on the left of the engraving and—the subject of this note—the magic square in the upper right-hand corner (Figure 2).
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Radley, Philippe D., Vasily Aksyonov, Michael Henry Heim, and Antonina W. Bouis. "In Search of Melancholy Baby." World Literature Today 62, no. 3 (1988): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144395.

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Chapple, Anne S. "Robert Burton's Geography of Melancholy." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 33, no. 1 (1993): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/450847.

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Jukić, Tatjana. "The melancholy condition of realism." Orbis Litterarum 76, no. 4 (July 7, 2021): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oli.12311.

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Falkner, Gerhard, and Rosmarie Waldrop. "Intermundium or Knowledge Means Melancholy." Chicago Review 48, no. 2/3 (2002): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25304873.

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Trevor, Douglas. "John Donne and Scholarly Melancholy." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 40, no. 1 (2000): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1556155.

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Tuma, Keith, and Basil Bunting. "Basil Bunting's "Briggflatts" and Melancholy." Contemporary Literature 34, no. 2 (1993): 266. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208551.

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Freedman, Luba. "Melancholy in Tasso's poetry." Neophilologus 75, no. 1 (January 1991): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00310842.

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Zelenin, Daniil A. "Emblematics and a Cure for Melancholy in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 1 (2021): 104–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-104-129.

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The article analyzes emblematic discourse in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, offering an extended view of the emblematics that organizes both the structure and the narrative of the book and is anticipated by the emblematic frontispiece. The article examines the book’s intricate structure in its connection with the generic uncertainty of the text. The singular vs universal dualism forms the book’s underpinning structure that implies emblematic and dialectic intentions of The Anatomy of Melancholy. The article further analyzes the emblematic frontispiece, revealing consistently explicated emblematic structures that emphasize the antithesis of “duplicity” vs “singularity” implicit in the book’s multi-level structure. Analysis further demonstrates the book’s continuity with cento- and florilegia traditions, also epitomized in the emblematic method. The essay argues that Burton was using discursive emblems and the emblematic discourse to establish his status as an artifex, which helps him avoid melancholy himself and encourage his reader to struggle with it. The article postulates that the emblematic frontispiece embodies the dialectic of “duplicity” and “singularity” and solves it by enabling the emblematic mechanism of reading of the book through the emblematic lenses, uniting the Word and the Image: it is what Burton eventually offers both himself and his reader to cure melancholy.
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Taberner, Stuart. "Born Under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature." Journal of Contemporary European Studies 22, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 520–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2014.975464.

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Bernard, Isabelle. "Engagement et mélancolie dans Écoutez nos défaites de Laurent Gaudé." arcadia 58, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2023-2001.

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Abstract This article analyzes the place of commitment and melancholy in the novel Écoutez nos défaites (Listen to our defeats) by French writer Laurent Gaudé (born in 1972). A dense, complex and multi-generic novel, it has a strong anchoring in contemporary historical events. Gaudé’s singular work, begun more than twenty years ago, scrutinizes the melancholy and lyricism which cross it in filigree, using universal literary heritage as its source – from Greek tragedy and the African tale, through immemorial myths and legends, to current world literature.
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Merola, N. M. "Cosmopolis: Don DeLillo's Melancholy Political Ecology." American Literature 84, no. 4 (January 1, 2012): 827–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901454.

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Pirog, Gerald. "Melancholy Illuminations: Mourning Becomes Blok's Stranger." Russian Literature 50, no. 1 (July 2001): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3479(01)80004-1.

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Kucich, John. "Melancholy Magic: Masochism, Stevenson, Anti-Imperialism." Nineteenth-Century Literature 56, no. 3 (December 1, 2001): 364–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2001.56.3.364.

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Alexander, Travis. "Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness." American Literature 92, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 513–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616175.

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Abstract Writing in 1991 and 1994, respectively, Donna J. Haraway and Emily Martin argued that in the postwar decades the immune system became a material pedagogy for neoliberal and postmodern thought. In its depiction as a decentralized network of response, the immune system modeled life in late liberalism’s dematerialized time-space compressions. Moreover, if the immune system reified life in this radical expansion, its preternatural competency for discrimination between self and other simultaneously availed a means of retaining racial hygiene in this brave new world of empire. Yet curiously neither Haraway nor Martin acknowledged the extent to which the arrival of HIV in the early 1980s constituted a radical desublimation of what Roberto Esposito identified as the immune system’s salvational image. This essay posits that the arrival of HIV did not simply constitute a neutralization of the immunological fetishism of the postwar period. Rather, the loss of immunity precipitated a biopolitical melancholia. Having lost access to its privileged topos—the immune system itself—immunological governance in turn proximately cathected the object responsible for its trauma, namely, HIV itself. I understand Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) and Chuck Hogan’s The Blood Artists (1998) to think, in submerged literary form, an incremental embrace of virality as, ironically, the most viable vehicle for conserving the fantasies of both neoliberal competency and racial containment reified initially by immunity itself.
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Blackmore, Josiah. "Melancholy, Passionate Love, and the Coita d'Amor." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 2 (March 2009): 640–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.2.640.

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From (Pseudo-)Aristotle's reflections on wine, poetry, and heroes in problems, book 30, to modern psychoanalytic theory and depression, melancholy has claimed the attention of artists and thinkers throughout the history of Western culture. According to Jennifer Radden's historical analysis, melancholy was “a central cultural idea, focusing, explaining, and organizing the way people saw the world and one another and framing social, medical, and epistemological norms” (vii). It takes a number of forms: for ancient Greek physicians it was a somatic malady, an overwrought contemplativeness and moroseness rooted in the body's humors; for Aristotle it was this, too, but was also a fount of artistic inspiration; for the Italian humanist Marsilio Ficino it was the source of poetic and prophetic powers, a requisite for heightened intellect. Melancholy was, in short, a principle of relation between the interior and exterior realms and as such possessed a weighty hermeneutic charge as a lens through which to experience and read the world. In recent years, scholars in literary and cultural studies have begun to explore the perspectives that melancholy offers for understanding such broad topics as the formation of literary subjectivities and cultural constructions of gender. The persistent presence of melancholy in medieval and early modern literature, following Radden's observation, advocates for its many possibilities as an interpretive tool to shape diverse literary positionalities and socioepistemological modes of being.
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Rusiłowicz, Kamil. "The Lost Object of Love? The Mystery of Unperformed Mourning in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping." Roczniki Humanistyczne 71, no. 11 (December 29, 2023): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh237111.4.

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The article investigates Marilynne Robinson’s debut novel Housekeeping in an attempt to uncover the origin of the book’s melancholy. Following Sigmund Freud’s insight about the lost object of love and combining Abraham and Torok’s and Kristeva’s writings on melancholy, the text argues that the Foster women’s overwhelming melancholy may be attributed to three factors: the grandfather’s death, creating the rupture in the symbolic order; the grandmother’s unperformed mourning, which failed to mend that rupture; and the house’s progressing decay—a constant reminder of the gap between the semiotic and the symbolic.
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Parr, James A., and Teresa Scott Soufas. "Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature." South Central Review 9, no. 2 (1992): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3189542.

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Burton, Grace M., and Teresa Scott Soufas. "Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature." Hispania 74, no. 4 (December 1991): 887. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/343726.

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Epps, Brad. "The Melancholy of Literature; Or the Discredit of Holding On." Nuevo Texto Crítico 13, no. 25-28 (2000): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ntc.2000.0005.

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Satya Prakash. "Mapping Melancholy: Sentiment Analysis of Emotional Trends in Victorian Literature." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 9, no. 6 (June 14, 2024): 78–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2024.v09.n06.011.

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This paper explores the application of sentiment analysis techniques to understand the emotional landscape of Victorian literature. By analyzing a corpus of key Victorian novels, the study aims to uncover patterns of melancholy, joy, anger, and other emotions, providing insights into the socio-cultural context of the 19th century. The research employs natural language processing tools to quantify and visualize emotional trends, examining how these reflect the broader themes of industrialization, social change, and personal identity in Victorian England. Through this computational approach, the study contributes to both digital humanities and literary scholarship, offering a novel perspective on the emotional dimensions of classic literary works.
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Kearly, Peter. "The Melancholy of Race (review)." Criticism 43, no. 4 (2001): 468–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crt.2001.0040.

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Brophy, Sarah. "Angels in Antigua: The Diasporic of Melancholy in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 117, no. 2 (March 2002): 265–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081202x61999.

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This essay endeavors to clarify the paradoxes of Jamaica Kincaid's grief in her AIDS memoir, My Brother (1997). By analyzing two related motifs—the memoir's pattern of botanical metaphors and the descriptions of her brother Devon's dying and of his corpse—the essay explores how Kincaid's melancholic commitment to Devon complicates her approach to biographical and autobiographical writing. Weighed down and consumed by her brother's affliction, Kincaid traces how Devon—or, rather, her memory of him—possesses independent powers of articulation, forcing her to confront her own implication, as a relatively privileged expatriate writer, in the political, social, and economic contexts that shape his suffering. A self-theorizing text that testifies to the changing demographics of the AIDS pandemic, My Brother also overlaps with and significantly redirects current theoretical understandings of mourning and melancholia, through its relocation of melancholic subjectivity at the intersection of postcolonial and racial anxieties.
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Rella, Franco, and Keala Jane Jewell. "Melancholy and the Labyrinthine World of Things." SubStance 16, no. 2 (1987): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685159.

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Williard, Ashley M. "Black Melancholy in the Early French Atlantic." L'Esprit Créateur 61, no. 4 (2021): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2021.0049.

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Allen, M. J. B., and Winfried Schleiner. "Melancholy, Genius, and Utopia in the Renaissance." Comparative Literature 47, no. 2 (1995): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1771296.

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Hopkins, Lisa. "Staging Passion in Ford's The Lover's Melancholy." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 45, no. 2 (2005): 443–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sel.2005.0019.

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Tagg, John. "Melancholy Realism: Walker Evans's Resistance to Meaning." Narrative 11, no. 1 (2003): 3–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2003.0003.

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