The melancholic gaze / / Piotr Sniedziewski.
This book consists of nine chapters devoted to representations of melancholia in 19th-century art and literature. A noteworthy feature of the book is its use of concepts from later works by Sigmund Freud, Jean Clair, Jean Starobinski, Julia Kristeva and others. Those concepts elucidate further conte...
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| Superior document: | Literary and cultural theory ; vol. 56 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literary and cultural theory ;
Volume 56. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- To wander and look (Rousseau, Chateaubriand)
- Gazing and writing instead of living (Senancour)
- Looking without seeing (Amiel, Macpherson, Turner, Mallarmé)
- For only in sadness can talent be perceived (Madame de Stahl)
- To see the nothing inside (Amiel)
- Gazing helplessly through life as it recedes (Delacroix)
- On the harmful effects of looking through the window (Flaubert)
- To look in a tarnished mirror (Baudelaire)
- Through the window and back (Balzac, Baudelaire, Hasenclever).