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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
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.
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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Emblematics and a Cure for Melancholy in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]
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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The way out – Metaphysical Melancholy in Lotta Lotass’ Den svarta solen Following the paratextual clues of Lotta Lotass’ conceptual ’Choose Your Own Adventure’ (anti-)novel Den svarta solen (”The black sun”, 2009) this article investigates the ...
Linus Ljungström
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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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Obce, zrujnowane ciała: melancholia a współczesna proza kobieca
The paper constitutes a brief overview of the history of melancholy, with a particular focus given to the presence and the role of women in melancholy discourses.
Barbara Braid
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The Melancholic Persona in Susan Evance’s Sonnet To Melancholy
This paper analyses the sonnet To Melancholy by the English Romantic writer Susan Evance in terms of the representation of the melancholic mind of the authorial persona.
Öznur Yemez
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In this paper I trace how melancholy and paintings of ruins link together in Hubert Robert’s (1733–1808) images and how we can also comprehend some other concepts close to melancholy in order to understand his images.
Altti Kuusamo
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From the 1570s in Spain, theorists show deep concern about the impact of melancholy on religious life. Medical and spiritual authors attempt to describe a “religious” melancholy that, although it inherits some features of the old acedia, is completely ...
Christine Orobitg
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