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  1. Melancholic joy
    on life worth living
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing, [London, England]

    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:... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 "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"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350177772; 9781350177758; 9781350177741; 9781350177734; 1350177733; 1350177741; 9781350177765
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Melancholy in literature; Melancholy in motion pictures; Joy in literature; Joy in motion pictures; Hope in literature; Hope in motion pictures; Philosophy
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Also published in print.

  2. Melancholic Joy
    On Life Worth Living
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350177758
    Subjects: Melancholie; Literatur; Film; Melancholy in literature; Melancholy in motion pictures; Joy in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
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  3. Melancholic Joy
    On Life Worth Living
    Published: 2021; ©2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350177758
    Subjects: Melancholy in literature; Melancholy in motion pictures; Joy in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (225 pages)
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  4. Melancholic joy
    on life worth living
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; Bloomsbury Publishing, [London, England]

    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:... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    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 "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"--

     

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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350177772; 9781350177758; 9781350177741; 9781350177734; 1350177733; 1350177741; 9781350177765
    Other identifier:
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Melancholy in literature; Melancholy in motion pictures; Joy in literature; Joy in motion pictures; Hope in literature; Hope in motion pictures; Philosophy
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Also published in print.