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"Naught so sweet as melancholy": A Gustatory Anatomy of Melancholy

, 2017
This chapter investigates the linguistic conceptualization of the sense of Taste in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. To do so, I conducted a corpus analysis in a digital version of the text, by means of key word concordances of the Basic Taste Terms in ...
BAGLI, MARCO
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Rituals of writing otherwise

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Drawing on theories of ritual as performative and transformative, this flash tip offers practical suggestions and examples for creating a ritual of writing otherwise, including companion texts, sensory and material cues to frame the ritual practice, writing collectively, and attitudes we might articulate and cultivate.
Madelyn Prevost
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Ruins in the Field: Materiality, Spectres and Pluritemporal Encounters of the Oxford University Arctic Expedition

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to conceptual debates on ruins by generating novel insights into how encounters with the haunted materialities of ruins in the field inform (post)colonial trajectories of exploration. Empirically, it examines how material and spectral traces of past lives in the field, alongside play with categories of absence and ...
Johanne M. Bruun
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PASCAL AND MELANCHOLY

, 2017
This article shows how two concepts for which Blaise Pascal'sPensées(1670) are best known—divertissementandennui(often mistranslated as “boredom”)—inherited and transformed medical conceptions of melancholy along with one of melancholy's signature ...
CHAD A. CÓRDOVA
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Melancholy and Sublime Spain: A Study of George Borrow’s Representation of the Spanish Landscape in The Bible in Spain (1843)

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies
This article explores the representation of different Spanish natural and urban landscapes in George Borrow’s travel book The Bible in Spain (1843). The study focuses on the author’s allusions to the aesthetic category of the sublime and to melancholy ...
Eduardo Sánchez Palencia
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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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Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Pedro Weingärtner's La Faiseuse d'Anges (A Fazedora de Anjos, 1908) stands as one of the most unsettling artefacts of Brazilian academic painting. Conceived in Rome but rooted in the Parisian fait divers of the ‘angel‐maker,’ it translates a sensational story of reproductive crime into a monumental moral tableau.
Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
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Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1978-1988, November 2026.
Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger, Herbaud P. F. Zohoungbogobo   +1 more
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Patients With Atypical Symptoms of Depression Respond Better to Lithium Augmentation Than Patients Without Atypical Symptoms

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Volume 154, Issue 5, Page 376-383, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Understanding the differences in treatment response between subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD) may help to prevent lengthy trial‐and‐error processes by identifying effective treatment options. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of atypical features of MDD (MDD‐A) on the response to lithium augmentation (LA)
Hannah Buchbauer, Mazda Adli, Peter Schlattmann, Maximilian Berger, Tom Bschor, Thomas Stamm, Joachim Behr, Roland Ricken, Pichit Buspavanich   +8 more
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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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