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The Black Lines of Damnation : Double Predestination and the Causes of Despair in Timothy Bright’s A Treatise of Melancholie

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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The Melancholic Persona in Susan Evance’s Sonnet To Melancholy

Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
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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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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INFLUENZA AND MELANCHOLY [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1921
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”Douce Mélancolie” à la Scena per Angolo: The Sublime Melancholy of Hubert Robert – Detached from Roman Models

Tahiti, 2019
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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‘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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La face noire de l’âme : la mélancolie « religieuse » dans les textes spirituels et médicaux de l’Espagne des XVIe et XVIIe siècles

Etudes Epistémè, 2015
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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Représentation pastorale et guérison mélancolique au tournant de la Renaissance : questions de poétique

Etudes Epistémè, 2003
This essay is based on a reading of French classicism as a heroic cathartic response to the attractions of melancholy. Proceeding from the work of Marc Fumaroli, it applies the European perspective that underlies his project to a history of pastoral, and
Laurence Giavarini
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Melancholy vs. tradition. Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Przestrzenie Teorii, 2010
In this article various manifestations of melancholy syndrome in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s poetry created after 1989 are analysed. However, his previous works are also studied.
Alina Świeściak
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Mélancolie ou Catharsis ? Une question éthique

Recherches & Travaux, 2019
The article questions the Aristotelian model of Poetics and reassesses the Nietzschean model of narrativity, emphasizing the importance of the notion of melancholy for narratological studies.
Antonino Sorci
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