The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss

Brand: Cornell University Press

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UPC:
9780801499715
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
5/26/1992
Author:
Juliana Schiesari
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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The pantheon of renowned melancholicsfrom Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjaminincludes 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.