{"product_id":"the-gendering-of-melancholia-feminism-psychoanalysis-and-the-symbolics-of-loss-paperback","title":"The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJuliana Schiesari\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses \u003cbr\u003eby such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women's poetry of the Italian Renaissance, key works by Tasso and Shakespeare, and the writings of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Lacan. According to Schiesari, male melancholia was celebrated during the Renaissance as a sign of inspired genius, at the same time as public rituals of mourning led by women were suppressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gendering of Melancholia\u003c\/i\u003e will be stimulating reading for scholars and students in the fields of feminist criticism, psychoanalytic and literary theory, and Renaissance studies, and for anyone interested in Western cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuliana Schiesari is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California, Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.01 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817999532320,"sku":"9780801499715","price":89.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/64e0692372941a11cd3b17afdfd142e9.webp?v=1781114337","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-gendering-of-melancholia-feminism-psychoanalysis-and-the-symbolics-of-loss-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}