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Melancholy Assemblage : Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance.

This book considers melancholy as an 'assemblage', as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present mom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Autor principal:	Daniel, Drew
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Temas:	1500-1700 Affect (Psychology) in literature. Art and literature > Great Britain > History. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Literature and science > Great Britain > History. Renaissance > England. Science in literature. Science > Philosophy. Art et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Théorie de la connaissance dans la littérature. Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Renaissance > Angleterre. Sciences dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. Science > Philosophy Science in literature Renaissance Literature and science Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Art and literature Affect (Psychology) in literature Great Britain England History Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Contents
Illustrations
Ac know ledg ments
Introduction
1. From DÃ?rerâ€?s Angel to Harlowâ€?s Monkey
Hanging the Head
Melancholy and/as Posture from DÃ?rer to Oliver
Walter Benjamin on the â€œIdeaâ€? as Confi guration
The Shield as Impresa of Physical Vulnerability
A Pose Is a Pose Is a Pose
2. Three Hundred Years Out of Fashion
Aff ect and Aff ectation
Don Adriano de Armado, Walter Benjamin, and the Dialectical Theater of Melancholy Fashion
Biron, Sigmund Freud, and Melancholy Wit
Â€œYou That Way. We This Way.â€?: Melancholy Transmission from Male Minds to Female Bodies3. Let Me Have Judgment, and the Jew His Will
Weariness and Wariness
The â€œStanding Poolâ€? of Melancholy
Antonio as the Subject of Masochistic Fantasy
Sacrifi ce, Subjection, and the Melancholy Pound of Flesh
4. That Within Which Passes Show
Mourning, Melancholy/Melancholia, and â€œthe Hamlet mysteryâ€?
â€œLess than kin and more than kindâ€?: Hamletâ€?s Melancholic Aside
Seeing Things and Hearing Voices: Epistemology, Spectatorship, Audition
Â€œAudience to this Actâ€?: Assembling the Witnesses5. Rhapsodies of Rags
A Melancholy Stereoscope
Burton Criticism as Melancholy Ruin
Assemblage as Argument: Burton on the â€œInward Causesâ€? of Melancholy
Digression as Argument: Benjamin on the â€œMosaicâ€? of Melancholy
6. My Self, My Sepulcher
â€œHumours Blackâ€?: Samson as Melancholic
â€œO blot to honor and religionâ€?: Masculinity and Eff eminacy
â€œChoosing Death as Dueâ€?: Samson as Masochist
Pathology and/or Redemption
Â€œRousing Motionsâ€?: Aristotle, Galen, and the Materiality of EmotionAll Passion Spent?
Epilogue Disassembling Melancholy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Melancholy Assemblage : Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance.

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