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Author Toohey, Peter, 1951-

Title Melancholy, love, and time : boundaries of the self in ancient literature / Peter Toohey
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004

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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
Summary "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, Hellenistic, and especially the Roman imperial periods in a study that illuminates the cultural and aesthetic significance of this emotionally charged literature. Toohey also examines some of the ways that the "self" was (or was not) formulated in ancient literature, looking at conditions that could be said to endanger the fragile stability of "self" and how the "self," in ancient experience, was reestablished. Ancient representations of suicide, the perception of time, and the formulation of leisure, Toohey argues, challenge the widespread orthodoxy that melancholic emotions were somehow "discovered" during the European Enlightenment. Blending ancient literature, ancient art, modern psychological theory, and modern literature into his interpretive matrix, Toohey concludes that, paradoxically, difficult emotional registers represent key modes for buttressing an individual's sense of self in both the ancient and modern world. Melancholy, Love, and Time makes an important contribution to classical studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, the history of psychology and medicine, as well as to the burgeoning field of the history of emotions."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-374) and index
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Subject 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.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020706588
ISBN 9780472025596
0472025597
1282556010
9781282556010
9786612556012
6612556013