Melancholic joy : on life worth living / Brian Treanor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treanor, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melancholy in literature.

Melancholy in motion pictures.

Joy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: We Perish, Each Alone

Chapter Two: Joy and the Myopia of Finitude

Chapter Three: From Mortality to Vitality: Carnal, Seraphic Bodies

Chapter Four: Hoping in the Dark

Chapter Five: Amor Mundi

Chapter Six: Melancholic Joy

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350177765

1350177768

9781350177758

135017775X

OCLC:

1238133809