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Ghost Stories, Ghost Estates: Melancholia in Irish Recession Literature

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017
This article considers representations of melancholia in post-Celtic Tiger Irish literature. By situating their post-recession fictions in “ghost estates,” or largely uninhabited housing developments, Donal Ryan and Tana French present neoliberally ...
Molly Slavin
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Some Melancholic Musings About the Slow Intimacy of Grief: ‘(M)y Story Always Arrives Late’ [PDF]

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
In this article I argue that while intimacy has to do with getting to know the other and showing what you know, the acknowledgment of not knowing and the insistence on forever wondering about the other, their impact on you, and your connection with them,
Lou-Marié Kruger
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The Nation and the Subaltern in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
Yvonne Vera’s death in 2005 brought to a tragic close the career of one of Zimbabwe’s, indeed Africa’s, more engaging contemporary writers. But her powerful novel, Butterfly Burning continues to mirror an aspect of Vera’s enduring concern: the place of ...
Obi Nwakanma
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Scleroderma treatment in Iranian traditional medicine: A case report [PDF]

Advanced Herbal Medicine, 2017
Background and aims: Scleroderma is a systemic autoimmune disease that its core symptom is hardening (Sclero) of the skin (Derma). It also affects other internal organs in more severe cases.
azadeh mashayekhi, Alireza Ghayoumi
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Journey through nature and self: the melancholic narrator in Atwood's Surfacing [PDF]

, 2015
Julia Kristeva's melancholic subject is one who feels a sense of loss and cannot express herself openly. As a result of melancholia, the subject exhibits strange behaviour, loses her language, and isolate herself.
Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam   +1 more
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Neurastenia i prąd nerwowy, czyli późnodziewiętnastowieczne teorie o „nerwach elektrycznych”. Przypadek Augusta Strindberga

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria
The nineteenth century was a period marked by emerging tensions and rapid civilizational upheavals that found expression in literature, medicine, and philosophy.
Iga Walaszczyk
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Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychiatric Classification [PDF]

, 2019
In this chapter, I provide an overview of phenomenological approaches to psychiatric classification. My aim is to encourage and facilitate philosophical debate over the best ways to classify psychiatric disorders.
Fernandez, Anthony Vincent
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Nommer le mal : infidélité et mélancolie dans Au revoir là-haut [PDF]

Revue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones
War, the unfortunate triumph of the darkness of our soul, also represents a moment of reflection on the moral and emotional investment we are expected to make in the world.
Laura DUMITRESCU
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Melancholia of deconstruction

Gragoatá, 2011
This paper addresses Derrida´s texts on “the work of mourning”, in which the philosopher, borrowing from psychoanalytic theory, postulates a distinction between mourning as a “normal” process of introjection of the lost object, and its pathological forms,
Jacob Rogozinski, Vicentina Marangon (tradução)   +1 more
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Poor Little Rich Kids: Privilege, Murder and Melancholia in Kevin Power's Bad Day in Blackrock and Tana French's The Secret Place

Review of Irish Studies in Europe
This article explores the representation of Irish youth attending exclusive boarding schools as portrayed in Kevin Power’s Bad Day in Blackrock (2008) and Tana French’s The Secret Place (2014).
Franca Leitner
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