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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

L’invention de la mélancolie religieuse ? Quelques réflexions sur un concept pluriel

Etudes 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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'With a View of the landscape': the poetic world of Miriam Van hee [PDF]

, 2015
Essay on the poetry of the Flemish poet Miriam Van ...
Musschoot, Anna
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

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 Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Melancholy: literature

Matraga, 2018
Book review of: COSTA LIMA, Luiz. Melancolia: literatura. São Paulo: EdUnesp, 2017.
Eduardo da Silva de Freitas
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Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on adolescents' perspectives on growing up in kinship care is limited. The study aims to explore the lived experiences of adolescents in grandparent kinship care by examining how they respond to adversity, build support and exercise agency. The study recruited 22 grandparent–adolescent pairs in a large Korean city.
Eunju Lee, Choong Rai Nho, Jinjoo Hong, Eun Hye Kim, Jeesoo Jung   +4 more
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A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Melancholy in the Early Novels of Güzide Sabri

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Melancholy is an important topic in medical and psychological research, and the study of this mood, which leaves deep traces in a person's inner world, is crucial. In psychiatry, melancholy is considered a subtype of depressive disorders.
Merve Esra Özgürbüz
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'The Paintings Within' [PDF]

, 2010
This is one of several contributory essays in the volume: 'Nicholas Lanier, 1588–1666. A Portrait Revealed'. It examines the two paintings that are internal to the portrait and suggests reasons for their inclusion and also proposes that they require ...
Wilks, Tim
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