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KriterionHume 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 in Contemporary Irish Poetry: The ‘Metre Generation’ and Mahon
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017 This article explores the influence of Derek Mahon’s melancholic poetry on a younger generation of Irish poets. Drawing on Peter Schwenger’s 'The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects' (2006), it argues that Mahon’s influential early poems ...
Ailbhe Darcy
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REFLECTIONS ON MELANCHOLIA AND ALLEGORY IN WALTER BENJAMIN
Travessias, 2010 Allegory and melancholy are two fundamental concepts of the German philosopher Walter Benjamins reflections. The search of the origin and the locus of tragic drama in German tradition take place, above all, in the book of The Origin of German Tragic ...
Débora Racy Soares
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Melancholy and Solitude in English Romantic Poetry: Examining Themes of Isolation in the Works of Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron" [PDF]
Mağallaẗ Markaz Al-H̲idmaẗ Lil Istišarāt Al-Baḥṯiyyaẗ wa Al-LuġātThe Romantic period in English literature was characterized by an acute focus on the individual’s relationship with nature, emotion, and the sublime.
Ibrahim Mohamed Othman
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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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Et in Arcadia ego. The Melancholy Idyll of Slovak Romantic Writers [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2018 The present paper outlines the basic assumptions of the research into the idyll in the discourse of Slovak Romanticism. The idyll is defined within the context of recent theoretical knowledge – such as the mode, the semantic attribute of the literary ...
Magdalena Bystrzak
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Experiences of Melancholy in Rose Tremain’s Novel Music And Silence
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2011 The current paper shows how the experiences of melancholy are represented in Music and Silence (1999), a postmodernist historical novel by Rose Tremain.
Aleksejs Taube
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Melancholia and its theopolitical discontents
Nordisk JudaistikEnglish-born philosopher and sociologist Gillian Rose (1947-1995) and French Trotskyist activist and philosopher Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) were born a mere year apart.
Rachel Pafe
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Melancholy condition of the femininity and feminine creation
Arteterapia, 2006 This paper exposed the hypothesis, based on the clinical experience, of the femininity as melancholy, as loss, devaluation and loneliness, and its consequent effects.
Natividad Corral
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