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Walter Benjamin: un melanconico allievo di Aby Warburg
Aisthesis, 2012 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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Etudes Epistémè, 2003 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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Global Networks, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 45-58, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper investigates transnational families’ experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak and the accompanying sudden and unexpected travel restrictions. Our data consist of written stories collected in April–June 2020 from migrants with ageing kin living in another country. For many respondents, the situation provoked an acutely felt urge
Anna Simola +3 more
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, 2022 The article presents an analysis of Urd by Ruth Lillegraven and Heime mellom istidene by Guri Sørumgård Botheim. These two works of poetry are studied from an ecocritical perspective primarily inspired by Timothy Morton’s concept of dark ecology and ...
Myren-Svelstad, Per Esben
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Cruel (im)mobilities and the nearly utopian intimacies of Italian migrants’ personal relationships
Global Networks, Volume 23, Issue 1, Page 188-202, January 2023., 2023 Abstract Most research on visits focuses on (semi)successful connections that equate valued intimacy to adaptation to transnational life and ethno‐national kin obligations. In contrast, we highlight important migrant relationships where adaptation is minimal and contact diminishes, yet they also take on heightened affective intensity.
Michael Humbracht +2 more
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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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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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Aphorisms on Epidemiological Modelling [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Epidemiological modelling is critiqued towards a scientific practice of negativity in the context of Scotland's Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks (EPIC). The paratactical approach to the melancholy science is invoked to problematise One Health, the intra-pandemic modelling culture, and to delineate an inkling of the negative in EPIC's ...
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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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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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