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The Affections of the Soul according to Aristotle, the Stoics and Galen: On Melancholy
Peitho, 2020 The present article is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the affections of the soul in general, while the second part investigates the case of melancholy, as it is studied from Aristotle and the Stoics to Galen.
Maria Protopapas-Marneli
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Slovenska Literatura, 2014 The first chapter of the paper provides a selective overview of the modern concepts of melancholy (e.g. S. Freud, J. Kristeva, S. Žižek, L. Földényi) as well as some of its literary forms (e.g. Chateaubriand, Amiel, Baudelaire etc.). The concepts contain
Tomáš Horváth
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Poetry of Exile of Spain: Sentimental Chronicle of an Exile
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 1939 is a fundamental date in the history of Spain: it is the beginning of a totalitarian regime. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of thousands of Spanish people were forced to leave their homeland. Writers, philosophers, artists, scientists,
Emire Zeynep Önal
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Etudes Epistémè, 2003 The aim of this paper is to study the modulations of the links established between pastoral and melancholy in a series of late eighteenth-century literary texts.
Jean-Louis Haquette
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Melancholy and the body in the eighteenth century: the example of Samuel Johnson
ACME, 2017 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great lexicographer and essayist, suffered from melancholy all his life. He believed that the disorder was congenital and that it afflicted his mind.
Robert DeMaria
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Dekadentlik kirjutus kui feministlik praktika. Alma Ostra jutustus „Aino”
Keel ja Kirjandus, 2023 This article analyzes Alma Ostra’s (1886–1960) literary debut, the novella “Aino” (1923), which carries an air of decadence combined with naturalistic elements.
Merlin Kirikal
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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The Deconstruction of Freud's Theory of Melancholy [PDF]
Družboslovne Razprave, 2018 In the article, the author presents an interpretation of melancholy and its discourse through the perspective of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and “violence of writing”.
Primož Mlačnik
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