Melancholic joy :: on life worth living /

"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 gener...

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Main Author: Treanor, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350177772
1350177776
1350177768
9781350177758
135017775X
9781350177765

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