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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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‘A FONDNESS FOR BEING SAD’: SOME PORTUGUESE SOURCES FOR ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S POETICS OF MELANCHOLY IN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE (1850)

Diacrítica, 2018
In seeing melancholy as the antithesis of poetic creativity, the Victorians often broke with the traditional Renaissance and Romantic attitudes of equating melancholy moods with artistic or poetic genius.
Paula Guimarães
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Translating the Melancholy Tone: E.A. Poe and Ch. Baudelaire [PDF]

Studia Litterarum
This 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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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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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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Melancholy and Crisis Worldview as the Situation of Man “In His Time” in the First Third of the XX Century

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, respectability, and credibility in Sean Baker’s Tangerine

, 2023
A complex cinematic history of trans characters precedes contemporary representations of trans people — one of normalizing trans identity through class, gender, and race.
Paige Macintosh
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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, Dagnew Tesfaye, Meskel Tesfamaryam G/   +2 more
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