The melancholic gaze

The melancholic gaze

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Śniedziewski, Piotr, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2018
Berlin : [2018]
Series:Literary and cultural theory ; Volume 56.
Subjects:
European literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Art, European > 19th century.
Melancholy in literature.
Melancholy in art.
The arts: general issues
Language: reference and general
Literature: history and criticism
Literary theory
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438362506719
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).

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