Melancholy, love, and time : boundaries of the self in ancient literature

Melancholy, love, and time : boundaries of the self in ancient literature / Peter Toohey.

"Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the classical, Helleni...

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Main Author: Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Psychology in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Depression, Mental, in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Love in literature.
Time in literature.
Self in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
ART > General.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Classical literature
Depression, Mental, in literature
Love in literature
Melancholy in literature
Mythology, Classical, in literature
Psychology in literature
Self in literature
Time in literature
Literatur
Gefühl > Motiv
Selbstdarstellung > Motiv
Antike
Emoties.
Zelfbewustzijn.
Letterkunde.
Klassieke talen.
Klassieke oudheid.
Geschichte 1-200.
Latein.
Griechisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sorrow without cause: periodizing melancholia and depression
  • Medea's lovesickness: Eros and melancholia
  • Seasickness: boredom, nausia, and the self
  • Acedia: madness and the epidemiology of individuality
  • The myth of suicide: volitional independence and problematized control in the first century c.e
  • Time's passing: catastrophes, Trimalchio, and melancholy
  • Passing time: hunting, poetry, and leisure
  • The mirror stage hostius quadra and the alienated self
  • Giorgio de Chirico, time, Odysseus, melancholy, and intestinal disorder / with Kathleen Toohey.

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