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Engages with the most obvious theme of Jean Rhys' writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. The author resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys' portrayal of women's psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displac…
Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don't acknowledge our own sorrows and longings, she says, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, or neglect
The author has elucidated the philosopher's complex thought, especially his persistent interrogation of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what Derrida sometimes called "half-mourning." The author relates this "ethical" interruption of mourning to the persistent but s…
"This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his early thought. Inf…
Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psych…
