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Melancholy and culture : essays on the diseases of the soul in Golden Age Spain / by Roger Bartra ; translated from Spanish by Christopher Follett.
Van Pelt Library PQ6058 .B2813 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartra, Roger.
- Series:
- Iberian and Latin American studies
- Standardized Title:
- Cultura y melancolía. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Spanish literature.
- Spanish literature--Psychological aspects.
- Melancholy in literature.
- Melancholy--Spain.
- Melancholy.
- Bipolar disorder--Spain.
- Bipolar disorder.
- Spain--Civilization.
- Spain.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- x, 235 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Myths of Melancholy 9
- 1 Translation and its metaphors 11
- 2 Myth and evolution 17
- 3 The adust humours: an overview 26
- Chapter 2 The Golden Age of Melancholy: A Sixteenth-Century Physician at the Frontiers of Madness 41
- 1 A Baroque physician explores the house of the soul 41
- 2 The Little Book of Melancholy 52
- 3 The courtly sickness 63
- 4 The Devil's bath 71
- 5 The dark night of melancholy 83
- 6 Love sickness 96
- 7 The sorrow of the Jews 107
- 8 Ill-tempered instruments 113
- 9 Decadence and Angst 121
- Chapter 3 Melancholy and Christianity: On Don Quixote's Sadness 165.
- Notes:
- "This book is a revised edition of 'Cultura y melancolia: Las enfermedades del alma en la España del Siglo de Oro (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2001)" - t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780708320105
- 0708320104
- OCLC:
- 277067701
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