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The Black Lines of Damnation : Double Predestination and the Causes of Despair in Timothy Bright’s A Treatise of Melancholie [PDF]
Etudes Epistémè, 2015 The relationship between melancholy and religious enthusiasm in England has been the subject of a number of historical studies. This article examines a lesser-known type of religious melancholy, the fear that one was among the reprobate (those not ...
Elizabeth Hunter
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CONSOLATIONS FOR MELANCHOLY IN RENAISSANCE HUMANISM [PDF]
Societate şi Politică, 2012 This essay explores the role of melancholy within the consolatoryliterature of Renaissance humanism. It begins (sections I-II) with a summary of thethemes and methods of humanist consolationes and their classical models, with particularattention to their
Angus GOWLAND
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‘Melancholy can be overwhelmed only by melancholy.’ Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]
International Review of Psychiatry, 2021 Whilst the above 17th Century view of what we would now term melancholic depression may be pessimistic, it does remind us of how the concept and treatments for depression have changed over time.The...
Sameer Jauhar, Allan H. Young
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Дискурс, 2021 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.
D. V. Andreenko
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Melancholy in selected contemporary Amharic novel The novel Yäqənat Zār -“Zār of Jealousy”
Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 2023 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”).
Dibekulu Dawit +2 more
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Меланхолия приходит в Россию. Монастыри как долгаузы в России в XVIII веке
Вивліоѳика, 2019 Western historiography about the history of madness has pointed out that the emergence and active use of special medical terms led to the development of certain discourses on disease which had been appropriated and used on a subjective level.
Екатерина Махотина
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Etudes Epistémè, 2003 Melancholy has been inherent in the pastoral discourse since ancient times. The fact that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pastoral romances also display melancholy elements is rather commonplace.
Laurence Plazenet
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Walter Benjamin: un melanconico allievo di Aby Warburg
Aisthesis, 2012 Walter Benjamin tried to get in touch with Panofsky and the Warburg’s circle, but the attempt failed. This article examines the chapter on melancholy of Benjamin’s The Origin of the German Tragic Drama (1928) and his main sources, i. e.
Marco Bertozzi
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A Disease of the Soul? Melancholy, Methodism and Madmen.
Lychnos, 2022 In the 18th century England melancholy was a topic of an intense and sometimes uncompromising debate. The Methodist movement's positive understanding of melancholy as a feeling related to the care for the soul was intensely criticised.
Trine Outzen
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Translating the Melancholy Tone: E.A. Poe and Ch. Baudelaire [PDF]
Studia LitterarumThis article addresses the transfer process of the melancholy tone in Ch. Baudelaire’s translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” The comparison between both variants of the translation, done respectively in 1853–1854 and 1864, allows us to understand
César Martínez Celis Díaz
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