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Melancholy, love, and time : boundaries of the self in ancient literature /

"Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the classical, Helleni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Sorrow without cause: periodizing melancholia and depression
  • Medea's lovesickness: Eros and melancholia
  • Seasickness: boredom, nausia, and the self
  • Acedia: madness and the epidemiology of individuality
  • The myth of suicide: volitional independence and problematized control in the first century c.e
  • Time's passing: catastrophes, Trimalchio, and melancholy
  • Passing time: hunting, poetry, and leisure
  • The mirror stage hostius quadra and the alienated self
  • Giorgio de Chirico, time, Odysseus, melancholy, and intestinal disorder / with Kathleen Toohey.