A01=Laurent Cantagrel
Author_Laurent Cantagrel
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Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
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- ISBN 9783484630338
- Weight: 477g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2004
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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The study sets out to examine how the concept of melancholy evolved from its usage in medical discourse to its usage in literature. How can we explain the fact that a term referring to a pathological condition close to madness and marked by extreme introversion and distraction should have become a key concept characterizing the expressive condition of the Romantic writer? Stripping away the modern usages of the term, the study adopts a rigorously historical perspective and analyzes a number of texts that cast a revealing light on the articulation of a philosophical and poetic purchase on the concept of melancholy and its pathological semantics.
