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‘Et in Arcadia ego’ : modulations mélancoliques de la tradition pastorale entre Lumières et Romantismes

open access: yesEtudes 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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Poetry of Exile of Spain: Sentimental Chronicle of an Exile

open access: yesLitera: 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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Melancholy and the body in the eighteenth century: the example of Samuel Johnson

open access: yesACME, 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 Deconstruction of Freud's Theory of Melancholy [PDF]

open access: yesDružboslovne 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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Melancholy: literature

open access: yesMatraga, 2018
Book review of: COSTA LIMA, Luiz. Melancolia: literatura. São Paulo: EdUnesp, 2017.
Eduardo da Silva de Freitas
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Guilt, Practical Identity, and Moral Staining [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The guilt left by immoral actions is why moral duties are more pressing and serious than other reasons like prudential considerations. Religions talk of sin and karma; the secular still speak of spots or stains.
Ingram, Andrew
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L’invention de la mélancolie religieuse ? Quelques réflexions sur un concept pluriel

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2015
This article offers some historiographical and methodological reflections on the evolution of the notion of religious melancholy back from its “invention” in 1621, true or alleged it may be, by Robert Burton with his The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Lisa Roscioni
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The poet’s melancholy

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
This article considers the relationship between depressed affect, a long-term refugee situation, and poetry among Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Zuzanna Olszewska
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Casting Characters in the Dark Ink of Melancholy: Figures of Dissent and Imprisonment in Seventeenth-Century Literature

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2015
Seventeenth-century English character-books were popular collections of short essays cataloguing the different types or “characters” of the city. These octavo or duodecimo pamphlets belonged neither to the field of theology nor to that of medical studies.
Claire Labarbe
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