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Law and Critique, 2020 The paper attempts to construct a theoretical account of what melancholy - in a psychoanalytical and cultural sense - may mean for jurisprudence. It argues that the map of relations and displacements between the object and the subject that is associated ...
Tacik, Przemysław
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Rhetorical Structure and Function in The Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]
, 2001 In writing The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton was working within the system of classical rhetoric as revived in the Renaissance, specifically the epideictic genus. A juxtaposition of the topics, arguments, and tripartite form employed by Burton with
Angus Gowland
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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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Emblematics and a Cure for Melancholy in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 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.
Daniil A. Zelenin
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Discourse, 2017 The projected image has become increasingly prominent in the art gallery over the past quarter century.2 In the accompanying catalog to an illustrative 1997 exhibition, Projections: Les transports de l'image, Dominique Païni argued that this prominence ...
Matthew Noble-Olson
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Kriterion, 2003 Hume variously viewed the association of philosophy and melancholy in different stages of his development. In this essay I propose to follow this progress, beginning with his youthful belief that a philosophical life would shelter its pursuer from ...
Lívia Guimarães
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Melancholy and the body in the eighteenth century: the example of Samuel Johnson [PDF]
ACME, 2017 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great lexicographer and essayist, suffered from melancholy all his life. He believed that the disorder was congenital and that it afflicted his mind.
Robert DeMaria
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The Affections of the Soul according to Aristotle, the Stoics and Galen: On Melancholy [PDF]
Peitho, 2020 The present article is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the affections of the soul in general, while the second part investigates the case of melancholy, as it is studied from Aristotle and the Stoics to Galen.
Maria Protopapas-Marneli
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, 2015 This design is a self-study exploration of surface design techniques inspired by various cypress trees reflected in Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. He found cypress trees to be a captivating subject as demonstrated in the well-known Starry Night which was ...
Yang,
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Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2012 This article discusses the ways in which Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) inherited and transformed the various European traditions of thinking about melancholy. It divides these traditions into four categories—medical, natural-philosophical,
Angus Gowland
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