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Modernist melancholy [PDF]

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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Matter in Plotinus's Normative Ontology. [PDF]

, 2004
To most interpreters, the case seems to be clear: Plotinus identifies matter and evil, as he bluntly states in Enn. I.8[51] that ‘last matter’ is ‘evil’, and even ‘evil itself’.
Schäfer, Christian
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The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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‘Et in Arcadia ego’ : modulations mélancoliques de la tradition pastorale entre Lumières et Romantismes

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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Imagery in Milton : L\u27 Allegro and Il Penseroso [PDF]

, 2015
Non-fiction by Shirley ...
Bullard, Shirley L.
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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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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‘The Extraordinary Case of the Flesh-Eating and Blood-Drinking Cavaliers’ [PDF]

, 2010
In May 1650, five royalists at an alehouse in Milton, Berkshire were reported to have tried to drink a health to the exiled Charles II in blood, to which end they ‘unanimously agreed to cut a peece of their Buttocks, and fry their flesh that was cut off ...
McShane, Angela
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

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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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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