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Ineffable, The, in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Absence in literature. --- Ineffable dans la littérature. --- Chagrin dans la littérature. --- Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature. --- Absence dans la littérature.

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Ineffable, The, in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Absence in literature. --- Ineffable dans la littérature. --- Chagrin dans la littérature. --- Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature. --- Absence dans la littérature.

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American literature --- Thematology --- Melville, Herman --- Death in literature --- Grief in literature --- Mourning customs --- Mourning customs in literature --- Novelists, American --- Sex role in literature --- Mort dans la littérature --- Chagrin dans la littérature --- Deuil --- Romanciers américains --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- History --- Biography --- Coutumes --- Histoire --- Dans la littérature --- Biographie --- Melville, Herman, --- Mort dans la littérature --- Chagrin dans la littérature --- Romanciers américains --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature

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From William Shakespeare's Hamlet to Robert Burton's Anatomy to Nicholas Hilliard's miniatures, melancholy has long been associated with the emotional life of Renaissance England. But what other forms of sadness existed alongside, or even beyond, melancholy, and what kinds of selfhood did they help create ? "Beyond Melancholy" explores the vital distinctions Renaissance writers made between grief, godly sorrow, despair, and melancholy, and the unique interactions these emotions were thought to produce in the mind, body, and soul. While most medical and philosophical writings emphasized the physiological and moral dangers of the "dis-ease" of sadness, warning that in its most extreme form it could damage the body and even cause death, new Protestant teachings about the nature of devotion and salvation suggested that sadness could in fact be a positive, even transformative, experience, helping to humble believers' souls and bring them closer to God. The result of such dramatically conflicting paradigms was a widespread ambiguity about the value of sadness and a need to clarify its significance through active and wilful interpretation - something this book calls "emotive improvisation". Drawing on a wide range of Renaissance medical, philosophical, religious, and literary texts - including, but not limited to, moral treatises on the passions, medical text books, mortality records, doctors' case notes, sermons, theological tracts, devotional and elegiac poetry, letters, life-writings, ballads, and stage-plays - "Beyond Melancholy" explores the emotional codes surrounding the experience of sadness and the way writers responded to and reinterpreted them. In doing so it demonstrates the value of working across source materials too often divided along disciplinary lines, and the special importance of literary texts to the study of the emotional past.

Medicine in Literature --- Emotions --- Grief --- English literature --- Sadness in literature --- Grief in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Tristesse dans la littérature --- Chagrin dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Sadness in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Tristesse dans la littérature --- Chagrin dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- Themes, motives. --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism.

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The title, Figuring Grief, refers to the narrative process whereby mourning is depicted. In her textual analysis, Smythe explores various connections between representation and consolation. Drawing on genre and narratological theory, she outlines the development of the "fiction-elegy" as a sub-genre and suggests that the modernist writings of Woolf and Joyce are paradigmatic examples of the form. She then uses these paradigms as suggestive "reading models" for the interpretation of works by Gallant, Munro, and other contemporary fiction-elegists. Figuring Grief offers new readings of specific works and suggests that new ways of reading are both demanded and rewarded by a poetics of elegy.

Grief in literature. --- Gallant, Mavis --- Munro, Alice, --- Laidlaw, Alice Ann, --- Munro, Alice Ann Laidlaw, --- מאנרו, אליס, --- מונרו, אליס, --- Gallant, Mavis, --- Young, Mavis de Trafford --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Canadian fiction --- Grief in literature --- Loss (Psychology) in literature --- Poetics --- Psychological fiction --- Short stories, Canadian --- Women and literature --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- 820 <71> --- Canadian short stories --- Canadian fiction (English) --- Canadian literature --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Chagrin dans la littérature --- Criticism and interpretation --- Thematology --- American literature --- Gallant, Marvis --- Munro, Alice --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism.