TY - BOOK ID - 143793324 TI - Melancholic joy : on life worth living PY - 2021 SN - 1350177768 135017775X PB - London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, DB - UniCat KW - Melancholy in literature. KW - Melancholy in motion pictures. KW - Joy in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143793324 AB - "Drawing on varied examples from poetry, literature and film, including Virginia Woolf, Jack Gilbert and the films of Terrence Malick, Melancholic Joy offers an honest assessment of the human condition. It unflinchingly acknowledges the everyday frustrations and extraordinary horrors that generate despair and argues that the appropriate response to this darkness is to take up joy again, not in an attempt to ignore or dismiss evil, but rather as part of a "melancholic joy" that accepts the mystery of a world that is both beautiful and brutal"-- ER -