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Author: Margery Arent Safir Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791439739 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 220
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Scholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature's place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science.
Author: Margery Arent Safir Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791439739 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 220
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Scholars in the exact and social sciences join literary critics to consider the work of French author Michel Rio and to reflect on literature's place in intellectual discourse in an age dominated by science.
Author: László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300220693 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
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Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.
Author: Michael Andrew Screech Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: Category : French essays Languages : en Pages : 224
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Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sangiune and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started his Essays, Montaigne was upset by an attack of melancholy humour: he became temperamental and unbalanced. Writing about himself restored the balance but broke an age-old taboo - happily so, for he discovered profound truths about himself and about our human condition. This book provides a literary companion to his Essays.
Author: Rufus Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 352
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Rufus of Ephesus' treatise On Melancholy represents perhaps the most influential medical monograph from the late first century AD, since his notion of melancholy links two diverse aspects: black bile as a cause for madness and depression and as a sign of intellectual genius. Rufus combines concepts of melancholy developed in the Aristotelian philosophy with concepts of famous physicians such as Hippocrates and Diocles. His ideas strongly influenced subsequent generations of physicians, and especially Galen, and dominated discourses on the topic during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Moreover, the reception of Rufus' concepts was not limited to the Western world; in medieval Muslim culture, in particular, his work enjoyed great fame and favor, and many intellectuals read it eagerly.In this volume, the Greek, Latin and Arabic fragments of this work, lost in the original, have been collected for the first time. Arabic sources in particular yield hitherto unknown fragments, thus allowing for new interpretations of this work. The English introduction, translation and commentary reconstruct the main arguments of this important treatise, enabling the interested scholar to obtain easy access to it. Leading scholars contributed interpretative essays which investigate Rufus and his ideas about melancholy in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early modern period from different vantage points, including history, philosophy, literature, art history and psychiatry.
Author: Robert Burton Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781015584051 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Drew Daniel Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 0823251276 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 333
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Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, The Melancholy Assemblage examines how the interpretive experience of emotion produces social bonds. Placing readings of early modern painting and literature in conversation with psychoanalytic theory and assemblage theory, this book argues that, far from isolating its sufferers, melancholy brings people together.
Author: Robert Burton Publisher: Hansebooks ISBN: 9783337239404 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Anatomy of Melancholy - what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptons, prognostics, and several cures of it - in three partitions with their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically opened and cut up. Eighth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author: Margery Arent Safir
Author: Margery Arent Safir
Author: László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
Author: Michael Andrew Screech
Author: Rufus
Author: Robert Burton
Author: Robert Burton
Author: Ruth Amelia Fox
Author: Mary Ann Lund
Author: Drew Daniel
Author: Robert Burton