The Gendering of Melancholia : Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and 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 penet...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
[2018]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cornell paperbacks.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8nsx |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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