The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature / Edition 1

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The pantheon of renowned melancholics-from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin-includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature.
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"A masterful interweaving of diverse strains of contemporary criticism which offers a powerful and consistent feminist perspective. Juliana Schiesari's strong analyses of texts by women writers are among the many delights of this book. She puts together pieces of a puzzle-with startling implications not only for our reading of the past but also for our understanding of our own historical moment. This is a major accomplishment."-Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota
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Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, Schiesari (Italian, U. of California, Davis) illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780801499715
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1992
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 264

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction 1
1 The Gendering of Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" 33
Freud's Essay and the Narcissism of Excessive Grief 36
The Question of Female Melancholia (Irigaray, Silverman, Kristeva) 63
2 Black Humor? Gender and Genius in the Melancholic Tradition 96
Aristotle and the Humor of Outstanding Men 101
Ficino's Philosophical Celebration of Loss 112
Diabolical Melancholia in Hildegard of Bingen 141
3 Appropriating the Work of Women's Mourning: From Petrarch to Gaspara Stampa, and from Isabella di Morra to Tasso 160
4 Soverchia maninconia: Tasso's Hydra 191
5 Mourning the Phallus? (Hamlet, Burton, Lacan, and "Others") 233
Index 269
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