TY - GEN T1 - The Gendering of Melancholia : Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature T2 - Cornell paperbacks. A1 - Schiesari, Juliana LA - English PP - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1091686763 AB - 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 penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature.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 penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature.Schiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses by such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women's poetry of the Italian Renaissance, key works by Tasso and Shakespeare, and the writings of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Lacan. According to Schiesari, male melancholia was celebrated during the Renaissance as a sign of inspired genius, at the same time as public rituals of mourning led by women were suppressed.The Gendering of Melancholia will be stimulating reading for scholars and students in the fields of feminist criticism, psychoanalytic and literary theory, and Renaissance studies, and for anyone interested in Western cultural history. CN - PN56.P92 S35 1992eb SN - 9781501718373 SN - 1501718371 SN - 0801426863 SN - 9780801426865 SN - 0801499712 SN - 9780801499715 KW - Depression, Mental, in literature. KW - Feminism and literature. KW - Loss (Psychology) in literature. KW - Psychoanalysis and literature. KW - European literature : Renaissance, 1450-1600 : History and criticism. KW - Grief in literature. KW - Women and literature. KW - Melancholy in literature. KW - Littérature européenne : 1450-1600 (Renaissance) : Histoire et critique. KW - Chagrin dans la littérature. KW - Femmes et littérature. KW - Mélancolie dans la littérature. KW - Dépression dans la littérature. KW - Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature. KW - Psychanalyse et littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. KW - Women and literature KW - Melancholy in literature KW - Grief in literature KW - European literature : Renaissance KW - Depression, Mental, in literature KW - Feminism and literature KW - Loss (Psychology) in literature KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - 1450-1600 KW - European literature : Renaissance, 1450-1600 : History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -