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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Tác giả chính: Schiesari, Juliana (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2018]
Loạt:Cornell paperbacks.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8nsx
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  • 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