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Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy': 'Religious Melancholy,' a Critical Edition
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Søren Kierkegaard's religious psychology of melancholy
… One deals with social and historical aspects of melancholy in relation to the emergence of modernity. It is argued that one way of understanding modernity is in terms of the emergence of a characteristic world view associated with Copernicanism, and that this transformation 'from the closed world …
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Melancholy Figures: From Bosch to Titian
… and theoretical dimensions of the concept of melancholy as they were understood, expressed, and, most importantly, figured by Renaissance artists. By focusing on the figural pose traditionally associated with the melancholic state and humor, it presents a hitherto unexplored connection between …
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Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing
… materialist lens to the discourse on southern melancholy by suggesting that this melancholic production is primarily accomplished by infusing objects with narratives of the past, thereby making an imagined premodern community a concrete fact of the social world. Turning to the early …
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Proverb lore in "The anatomy of melancholy".
… has been to study Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy for the purpose of finding as many as possible of the proverbs he uses in that famous work. Before entering upon the task proper, Apperson's English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, and Smith's Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs were …
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Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness: A Mental Therapy Retreat
In America alone, 19 million people live with depression. Untreated depression is the leading cause of suicide in the United States and the third leading cause of death between 18-25 year olds. The aim of the project was guided based on the idea that we could take sadness as a manifestation in …
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Romantic melancholy: European post-Enlightenment protest in the Age of Reason
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An Explication of the Text of John Keats' Ode on Melancholy
… afford a rich field for study. His "Ode on Melancholy” is such a poem.</p> <p>The primary objective of this study is the explication of the text of the ”Ode on Melancholy.” It is hoped that this explication will demonstrate Keats’ theory of the relation between beauty and melancholy as he …
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The changing construction of the human being in medical discourse concerning melancholy
… this thesis will focus on a particular ailment, melancholy. Melancholy was considered a disorder which affected all parts of a human being, however his or her components were subdivided. Thus, a physician's discussion of melancholy reveals his perception of how the human being was constructed. …
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Mourning and melancholy: a comparative study on Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera
… the modernist self is created in the form of melancholy and mourning. The main question is to see how the African modernist subjectivity is constructed through poetry. As subjects of colonialism, both Okigbo and Marechera sought to establish new links combining them with the mainstream …
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A "Melancholy Experience:" William C. C. Claiborne and the Louisiana Militia, 1811-1815
<p>William C. C. Claiborne found himself a stranger in a strange land. Almost more a colonial governor of a European power rather than an American statesman, Claiborne grappled with maintaining a militia force for the Territory of Orleans, now the present day state of Louisiana. He built upon the …
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Earthbound Humors: An Ecocritical Approach to Melancholy in As You Like It and Hamlet
… was determined by his bodily humors, so the melancholy humor particularly lends itself to an ecocritical approach because it is inextricably linked to the natural world. Transcending genre, melancholy is not limited to the green world of comedy but rather appears in tragedy as well. In As You …
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Ailments of the Soul: Blood Transfusions and the Treatment of Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
… patients suffering from mental diseases such as melancholy. Many physicians diagnosed melancholy as a disease of the body, mind, and soul in which blood played a key role. Philosophy, religion, and folklore helped formulate blood as an elusive yet powerful substance with access to immaterial mind …
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Melancholy Machines: On Vitalism and Mechanism in the Poetics of the Historic Vanguards in Latin America
… step with European and US visions of modernity. ‘Melancholy Machines’ complicates these ideas by retracing vanguard poetry’s painstaking encounter with material conditions in Latin America, passing from a period of relative optimism about the project of modernity into one of political crises and …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
This dissertation examines the politics of representation within the novel of the Third World. Drawing on the scholarship of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
This thesis explores structures of melancholy in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and …
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The ambition of melancholy: the aesthetics of heroism in the lyric poetry of Juan Boscán and Fernando de Herrera
Spanish appropriation of Petrarchan lyric in the sixteenth century was motivated by the desire to raise the cultural status of Spain to match that of its imperial presence on the world’s stage. As this thesis will argue, ‘melancholic heroism’, an attitude that was central to the construction of the …
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The ‘Melancholy Pompous Sight’: Royal Deaths and the Politics of Ritual in the Late Stuart Monarchy, c. 1685-1714
This thesis explores the deaths, funerals and other associated rituals given at the deaths of British monarchs and royals in the late Stuart period (1660-1714) with a focus on those occurring between the death of King Charles II in 1685 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714. This topic has lacked …
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Visceral Creativity: Digestion, Earthly Melancholy, and Materiality in the Graphic Arts of Early Modern France and the German-Speaking Lands (c. 1530-1675)
Building on recent scholarship in the history of art which has started to reappraise the meaning of grotesque and scatological motifs, this thesis examines how digestion was conceived of as a model of creation, and how this was translated visually. Renaissance creativity was increasingly modelled …
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