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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Melancholia"”.
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
<p>This dissertation examines male bereavement in medieval literature, expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across …
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Brazilian Return Migration: Debt, Freedom and Melancholia
… consumption, modernity, individual freedom, and melancholia which are prevalent matters in the lives of Brazilian migrants, I enquire into the everyday relations that migrants maintain with others and within which they constitute themselves. I argue that migration to Ireland enables a degree of …
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Melancholia and Consciousness in Music, Art and Literature
Melancholia and Consciousness in Music, Art and Literature is an interdisciplinary exploration of artists’ melancholia as a state of consciousness across the visual arts, music, and literature, from the times of the Hippocratic writers to the emergence of the unconscious as a source of artistic …
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
… by his experience of intense loss and state of melancholia, as defined by Freud. When a subject is in a state of melancholia, they have lost an ideal or love object, and they fail to move on with this intense loss. They become outcasts of society through this loss. In addition to Freud, I also …
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Mourning and Melancholia in Zimbabwean Culture and Cinema
This thesis interrogates postcolonial melancholia and femininity through the textual analysis of literary and cinematographic works from Zimbabwe. The work is a transdisciplinary project encompassing psychosocial and postcolonial studies, as well as film and cultural studies. I define post-colonial …
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Melancholia & Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's <i>The Remains of the Day</i>
… Sigmund Freud's influential essay, "Mourning and Melancholia," allows us to understand how loss influences Stevens's narrative. In this essay, Freud explores conditions that result after the loss of person or an ideal. For Stevens, the lost object is the myth of pre-war English traditions. Freud's …
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Antonio Saura's Monstrifications: The monstrous body, melancholia, and the modern Spanish tradition
This dissertation examines the monstrous body in the works of Antonio Saura Atares (1930-1998) as a means of exploring moments of cultural and political refashioning of the modern Spanish tradition during the second half of the twentieth century. In his work, Saura rendered well-known artworks of …
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… into the representation of mourning and melancholia in the work of Elizabeth Smart, Evelyn Lau, Siri Hustvedt, Sarah Sheard and Kathryn Harrison. The thesis addresses women's historic exclusion from the discourse of melancholia from a feminist perspective. It will consider the political …
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After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
… behind the curtain of transgenerational forms of melancholia, to that place where infinite longing is shown to organize itself not around any “real thing” but around a phantom entity whose idealization covers up the necessity to grapple with one’s involvement in a history of loss, which is also a …
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Asian-American Literature and the Family Saga: Cyclical Histories of Racial Melancholia and Racial Dissociation
… the various family saga tropes extract racial melancholia and racial dissociation in the confines of the narrative. The first section, “The Beginning of a Pattern: Conflicted Identity in the Nuclear Family,” analyzes The Namesake through the relationship of the main character, Gogol, and his …
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
… Affective Life of Racism’: Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature,” I summon the concept of racial melancholia put forth by Anne Anlin Cheng, David Eng, and Shinhee Han as a springboard, expanding their definitions by closely reading the forms of racial melancholia …
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Early modern melancholia and present day depression : a comparative study of the female experience in dramatic and medical sources
… between the early modern understanding of female melancholia and women’s depression today. Working with proto-medical treatises and Shakespearean drama from the early modern period (1580-1665), alongside contemporary diagnostic frameworks and psychosocial research (1960-2017), it investigates how …
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Belonging in the Psychic Nowhere: Racial Trauma, Racial Melancholia and Related Mental Health Outcomes Amongst South Asian Immigrants in the US
… by employing the psychoanalytic theory of racial melancholia. Quantitative data were collected via self-report measures, and qualitative data were obtained through group interviews with a subsample of participants (N=10). Correlation analyses and parallel mediation models were conducted to explore …
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"We must love on another or die": The Ethic of Empathy in the AIDS Plays of Kramer, Vogel and Tucker Green
… in relation to Freud's theories of mourning and melancholia. Each play portrays the need to resist the full work of mourning due to the unavailability of empathy for the AIDS community. The plays hint at the possibility for full mourning to occur once the subjects of AIDS finally receive the …
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Zimbabwe Ruins: Claims of responsibility within speculations on psycho-social experiences of exile and diaspora
… the experiences of loss, mourning and melancholia as they relate to the kind of exilic existence experienced by many Zimbabweans as a result of 'the Crisis'. This kind of exile has been called "internal" and "external" (2007) exile by the Zimbabwean poet Chenjerai Hove, by which he …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
… Gothic and philosophical debates on suicide and melancholia. I explore how discussions of suicide are presented dramatically throughout the five selected plays, and consider how the atmosphere of melancholia comes to permeate the Gothic genre. Chapter 4 considers how sentimental portrayals of …
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
… in creative artists between manic creativity and melancholia. Each repetition is a symbolic phantasy of victory over the father, but with the survival, there is also the accompanying destruction. So we can define the Immortality Phantasy as the symbolic matrix of the desire for survival, stemming …
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Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness: A Mental Therapy Retreat
… based on a well documented understanding that melancholia creates a permeable boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness. In melancholia there is an internalization of behaviors that insulate and isolate the individual. With this level of introspection also comes an underlying gift of …
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Failure to Mourn: Challenges to the Work of Mourning in Twentieth-Century Italian Literature
… “healthy” finite mourning and “unhealthy” melancholia, as initially described by Freud in his seminal Mourning and Melancholia (1917), what the authors here scrutinized rather do is cling to their pain, as if to maintain a sort of affectionate, yet not pathological, relationship with the …
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Silence for the one about to sing: selected short lyrics from two collections
… for the classic elements of fado (i.e., melancholia, location, and longing) and the innovative expression of novo fado, a dynamic which comprises the poetic arc of each piece in my collections. Much of the writing represents a mixture of allegorical, narrative, and surrealist poetry …
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