ISBN: 9780801426865

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 un… More...

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 penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of 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 penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature.Schiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses by such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women's poetry of the Italian Renaissance, key works by Tasso and Shakespeare, and the writings of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Lacan. According to Schiesari, male melancholia was celebrated during the Renaissance as a sign of inspired genius, at the same time as public rituals of mourning led by women were suppressed.The Gendering of Melancholia will be stimulating reading for scholars and students in the fields of feminist criticism, psychoanalytic and literary theory, and Renaissance studies, and for anyone interested in Western cultural history. Trade Books>Hardcover>Social Sciences>LGBTQ,Gender Identity>Gay & Lesbian, Cornell University Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780801426865

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 wome… More...

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 penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of 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 penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. Schiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses by such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women''s poetry of the Italian Renaissance, key works by Tasso and Shakespeare, and the writings of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Lacan. According to Schiesari, male melancholia was celebrated during the Renaissance as a sign of inspired genius, at the same time as public rituals of mourning led by women were suppressed. The Gendering of Melancholia will be stimulating reading for scholars and students in the fields of feminist criticism, psychoanalytic and literary theory, and Renaissance studies, and for anyone interested in Western cultural history. | The Gendering of Melancholia by Juliana Schiesari Paper over Board | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Juliana Schiesari<

ISBN: 9780801426865

Hardback, [PU: Cornell University Press], The pantheon of renowned melancholics-from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin-includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view… More...

Hardback, [PU: Cornell University Press], 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... -- Cornell University Press, Literature: History & Criticism<

1992, ISBN: 9780801426865

Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Cornell University Press], Cornell University Press, 1992