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Malinconici alle terme. Sui fantasmi e i mosaici dell’Anatomy of Melancholy di Robert Burton.
- Source :
- Anglistica Pisana; 2019, Vol. 16 Issue 1/2, p35-54, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- In this paper I aim to investigate the theme of corrupted imagination in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, translating it from a medical perspective to an aesthetical one. To this end, I decided to start from a very specific site, i.e. thermal baths, from which I trace an exegetical path that first of all isolates hypochondriacal melancholy – i.e. the physiological cause that such a treatment was meant to cure – as a disease connected to the intellectual faculties. After such preliminary medical observations, my discourse tackles the traditional association between the poet and the melancholy man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MELANCHOLY
ANATOMY
POETS
DISCOURSE
POETRY (Literary form)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Italian
- ISSN :
- 18274951
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Anglistica Pisana
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149228691