Modernist Melancholia
Title | Modernist Melancholia PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Enderwitz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2015-07-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137444320 |
Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory
Modernism and Melancholia
Title | Modernism and Melancholia PDF eBook |
Author | Sanja Bahun |
Publisher | |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019997795X |
Modernism and Melancholia shows how a range of novels from 1913 to 1941 perform melancholia in their diction, images, metaphors, syntax, and experimental narrative techniques.
Cultures of the Death Drive
Title | Cultures of the Death Drive PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Sánchez-Pardo |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2003-05 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780822330455 |
DIVA study of melancholia, sexuality, and representation in literary and visual texts that can be read at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and the arts in modernism./div
Affective Mapping
Title | Affective Mapping PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan FLATLEY |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674036964 |
The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.
Cultures of the Death Drive
Title | Cultures of the Death Drive PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Sánchez-Pardo |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2003-05-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0822384744 |
Cultures of the Death Drive is a comprehensive guide to the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory to date. It is also an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein’s thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art. Esther Sánchez-Pardo examines the issues that the seminal discourses of psychoanalysis and artistic modernism brought to the fore in the early twentieth century and points toward the uses of Kleinian thinking for reconceptualizing the complexities of identity and social relations today. Sánchez-Pardo argues that the troubled political atmosphere leading to both world wars created a melancholia fueled by “cultures of the death drive” and the related specters of object loss—loss of coherent and autonomous selves, of social orders where stability reigned, of metaphysical guarantees, and, in some cases, loss and fragmentation of empire. This melancholia permeated, and even propelled, modernist artistic discourses. Sánchez-Pardo shows how the work of Melanie Klein, the theorist of melancholia par excellence, uniquely illuminates modernist texts, particularly their representations of gender and sexualities. She offers a number of readings—of works by Virginia Woolf, René Magritte, Lytton Strachey, Djuna Barnes, and Countee Cullen—that reveal the problems melancholia posed for verbal and visual communication and the narrative and rhetorical strategies modernist artists derived to either express or overcome them. In her afterword, Sánchez-Pardo explicates the connections between modernist and contemporary melancholia. A valuable contribution to psychoanalytic theory, gender and sexuality studies, and the study of representation in literature and the visual arts, Cultures of the Death Drive is a necessary resource for those interested in the work of Melanie Klein.
The Literature of Melancholia
Title | The Literature of Melancholia PDF eBook |
Author | M. Middeke |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2011-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230336981 |
This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker.
Time, Tide and History
Title | Time, Tide and History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Sydney University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2024-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1743329687 |
Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark’s fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark’s writing. This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark’s fiction as a whole, but also reflects on the ways in which her fiction speaks to our present moment, in the context of a globally fraught, post-pandemic, Anthropocene era. Above all, the revisiting of Dark’s fiction is mandated by a desire to recognise the ways in which it anticipates vital debates in Australian literary and national culture today, about settler colonialism and its legacies, and with regard to the histories, condition and status of Australia’s First Nations people. This volume interweaves varied topical themes, from formal debates about modernism, historical realism and melodrama, to questions about modernity’s time and space, about gender and cultural difference, and about the specifics of built and natural environments. Time, Tide and History intentionally loosens the conventions of literary scholarship by including other kinds of work alongside critical and scholarly readings: a written dialogue between two contemporary historians about Dark’s legacy, and a biographical piece on the life and role of Eleanor Dark’s husband, Eric Payten Dark. Bringing together the interwar fiction’s feminist and modernist dimensions with the historical turn of The Timeless Land trilogy, the essays in Time, Tide and History collectively pursue ethical and political questions while teasing out the distinctive thematic, formal and aesthetic features of Dark’s fiction.