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Pages: 248
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A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything f
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Pages: 195
Authors: Jacky Bowring
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and re
A User's Guide to Melancholy
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Mary Ann Lund
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most p
Melancholy, Love, and Time
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Peter Toohey
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-06 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature
The Melancholy of Resistance
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: László Krasznahorkai
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize