Author: Ross Chambers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sees in the disjunction between the narrative function and the textual function of mid-19th-century French literature, a reflection of the general malaise that swept the country in the wake of the failed revolution of 1848. Considers the works of Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo. First published in French in 1987. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Writing of Melancholy
Author: Ross Chambers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sees in the disjunction between the narrative function and the textual function of mid-19th-century French literature, a reflection of the general malaise that swept the country in the wake of the failed revolution of 1848. Considers the works of Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo. First published in French in 1987. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226100708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sees in the disjunction between the narrative function and the textual function of mid-19th-century French literature, a reflection of the general malaise that swept the country in the wake of the failed revolution of 1848. Considers the works of Flaubert, Nerval, Baudelaire, Gautier, and Hugo. First published in French in 1987. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Melancholy
Author: Jon Fosse
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Melancholy, Love, and Time
Author: Peter Toohey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113026
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113026
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature
The Melancholy of Resistance
Author: László Krasznahorkai
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
The Nature of Melancholy
Author: Jennifer Radden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198029675
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198029675
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. Editor Jennifer Radden provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship between these historical accounts of melancholy and today's psychiatric views on depression. This important new collection is also beautifully illustrated with depictions of melancholy from Western fine art.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melancholy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Melancholy Art
Author: Michael Ann Holly
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400844959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400844959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy.
A User's Guide to Melancholy
Author: Mary Ann Lund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108838847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine's disease of the mind.
The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton
Author: Adam Kitzes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135503079
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes and preventions of political disorder, on both specific and abstract levels. Thus, at one and the same moment, a writer could write about melancholy to discuss specific and ongoing political crises and to explore more generally the principles which generate political conflicts in the first place. In the course of developing a traditional discourse of melancholy of its own, English writers appropriated representations of the disease - often ineffectively - in order to account for the political turbulence during the civil war and Interregnum periods
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135503079
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
During the so-called Age of Melancholy, many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of social turbulence, ranging from discontent and factionalism to civil war. Writing about melancholy became a way to explore both the causes and preventions of political disorder, on both specific and abstract levels. Thus, at one and the same moment, a writer could write about melancholy to discuss specific and ongoing political crises and to explore more generally the principles which generate political conflicts in the first place. In the course of developing a traditional discourse of melancholy of its own, English writers appropriated representations of the disease - often ineffectively - in order to account for the political turbulence during the civil war and Interregnum periods