The Gendering of Melancholia : Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature /

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The pantheon of renowned melancholics--from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin--includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schiesari, Juliana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Depression, Mental, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Psychanalyse et litterature.
Perte (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Depression dans la litterature.
Melancolie dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature.
Chagrin dans la litterature.
Litterature europeenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Melancholy in literature.
Women and literature.
Grief in literature.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Gendering of Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
  • Chapter 2. Black Humor? Gender and Genius in the Melancholic Tradition
  • Chapter 3. Appropriating the Work of Women's Mourning: From Petrarch to Gaspara Stampa, and from Isabella di Morra to Tasso
  • Chapter 4. Soverchia maninconia: Tasso's Hydra
  • Chapter 5. Mourning the Phallus? (Hamlet, Burton, Lacan and "Others")
  • Index

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