Melancholy and the Archive

Melancholy and the Archive
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781441152169
ISBN-13 : 1441152164
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Melancholy and the Archive by : Jonathan Boulter

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

Melancholy and the Archive

Melancholy and the Archive
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781441185358
ISBN-13 : 1441185356
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Melancholy and the Archive by : Jonathan Boulter

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

The Melancholy of Anatomy

The Melancholy of Anatomy
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780307773937
ISBN-13 : 0307773930
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Melancholy of Anatomy by : Shelley Jackson

Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light. Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of phlegm cement friendships and sexual relationships; and a floating fetus larger than a human becomes the new town pastor. In this debut story collection, Shelley Jackson rewrites our private passages, and translates the dumb show of the body into prose as gorgeous as it is unhygienic.

British Romanticism and the Archive

British Romanticism and the Archive
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9783110775624
ISBN-13 : 311077562X
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis British Romanticism and the Archive by : David Kerler

Taking its cue from Jacques Derrida’s concept of le mal d’archive, this study explores the interrelations between the experience of loss, melancholia, archives and their (self-)destructive tendencies, surfacing in different forms of spectrality, in selected poetry of British Romanticism. It argues that the British Romantics were highly influenced by the period’s archival fever – manifesting itself in various historical, material, technological and cultural aspects – and (implicitly) reflected and engaged with these discourses and materialities/medialities in their works. This is scrutinized by focusing on two basal, closely related facets: the subject’s feverish desire to archive and the archive’s (self-)destructive tendencies, which may also surface in an ambivalent, melancholic relishing in the archived object’s presence within its absence. Through this new theoretical perspective, details and coherence previously gone unnoticed shall be laid bare, ultimately contributing to a new and more profound understanding of British Romanticism(s). It will be shown that the various discursive and material manifestations of archives and archival practices not only echo the period’s technological-cultural and historical developments along with its incisive experiencing of loss, but also fundamentally determine Romantic subjectivity and aesthetics.

World Literature Decentered

World Literature Decentered
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 183
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ISBN-10 : 9781000407136
ISBN-13 : 1000407136
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis World Literature Decentered by : Ian Almond

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the “West”. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention – on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world.

The Melancholy Assemblage

The Melancholy Assemblage
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9780823251278
ISBN-13 : 0823251276
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Melancholy Assemblage by : Drew Daniel

Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, The Melancholy Assemblage examines how the interpretive experience of emotion produces social bonds. Placing readings of early modern painting and literature in conversation with psychoanalytic theory and assemblage theory, this book argues that, far from isolating its sufferers, melancholy brings people together.

Melancholy

Melancholy
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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1564784517
ISBN-13 : 9781564784513
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Melancholy by : Jon Fosse

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 "Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but therefore uniquely able to see its beauty and its light.

J.M. Coetzee and the Archive

J.M. Coetzee and the Archive
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781350165960
ISBN-13 : 1350165964
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis J.M. Coetzee and the Archive by : Marc Farrant

Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and academic, this volume investigates the historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts of Coetzee's oeuvre. Cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in approach, the book looks both at the prolific archival traces of Coetzee's early and middle work as well as examines his more recent work (which has yet to be archived), and a wide range of materials beyond the manuscripts, including family albums, school notebooks and correspondence. Navigating Coetzee's interests in areas as diverse as literature, photography, autobiography, philosophy, animals and embodied life, this is also an exploration of the archive as both theory and practice. It raises questions about the tensions, contradictions and discoveries of archival research, and suggests that a literary engagement with the past is crucial to a recovery of culture in the present.

A User's Guide to Melancholy

A User's Guide to Melancholy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781108982580
ISBN-13 : 1108982581
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis A User's Guide to Melancholy by : Mary Ann Lund

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 perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance. Burton's Anatomy is perhaps the largest, strangest, and most unwieldy self-help book ever written. Engaging with the rich cultural and literary framework of melancholy, this book traces its causes, symptoms, and cures through Burton's writing. Each chapter starts with a case study of melancholy - from the man who was afraid to urinate in case he drowned his town to the girl who purged a live eel - as a way into exploring the many facets of this mental affliction. A User's Guide to Melancholy presents in an accessible and illustrated format the colourful variety of Renaissance melancholy, and contributes to contemporary discussions about wellbeing by revealing the earlier history of mental health conditions.