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The 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
Autor principal:	Daniel, Drew
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Affect (Psychology) in literature. Art and literature. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. Literature and science. Renaissance. Science in literature. Science > Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Sciences dans la litterature. Renaissance > Angleterre. Litterature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Theorie de la connaissance dans la litterature. Art et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire. Renaissance > England. Literature and science > Great Britain > History. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Art and literature > Great Britain > History. England. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Electronic books.
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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€oeIdeaâ€? 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€oeYou 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€oeStanding 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€oethe Hamlet mysteryâ€?
â€oeLess than kin and more than kindâ€?: Hamletâ€?s Melancholic Aside
Seeing Things and Hearing Voices: Epistemology, Spectatorship, Audition
Â€oeAudience to this Actâ€?: Assembling the Witnesses5. Rhapsodies of Rags
A Melancholy Stereoscope
Burton Criticism as Melancholy Ruin
Assemblage as Argument: Burton on the â€oeInward Causesâ€? of Melancholy
Digression as Argument: Benjamin on the â€oeMosaicâ€? of Melancholy
6. My Self, My Sepulcher
â€oeHumours Blackâ€?: Samson as Melancholic
â€oeO blot to honor and religionâ€?: Masculinity and Eff eminacy
â€oeChoosing Death as Dueâ€?: Samson as Masochist
Pathology and/or Redemption
Â€oeRousing Motionsâ€?: Aristotle, Galen, and the Materiality of EmotionAll Passion Spent?
Epilogue Disassembling Melancholy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

The Melancholy Assemblage : Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance

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