De la maladie a l' ecriture : Genese de la melancolie romantique. (In französischer Sprache) (Communicatio)

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The study sets out to examine how the concept of melancholy evolved from its usage in medical discourse to its usage in literature. How can we explain the fact that a term referring to a pathological condition close to madness and marked by extreme introversion and distraction should have become a key concept characterizing the expressive condition of the Romantic writer? Stripping away the modern usages of the term, the study adopts a rigorously historical perspective and analyzes a number of texts that cast a revealing light on the articulation of a philosophical and poetic purchase on the concept of melancholy and its pathological semantics.

Die Reihe versammelt Forschung in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die die Trias aus Kultur, Text und Medium in ihrer wechselseitigen Bezogenheit zum Gegenstand der Untersuchung macht. Prozesse des Mitteilens und der Vermittlung entfalten sich stets in kulturellen Zusammenhängen, auf die sie auch zurückwirken. In der Reihe werden Kommunikationskulturen sowohl als Effekt von Formgebung als auch mit Blick auf ihre medialen Bedingungen untersucht.

The study sets out to examine how the concept of melancholy evolved from its usage in medical discourse to its usage in literature. How can we explain the fact that a term referring to a pathological condition close to madness and marked by extreme introversion and distraction should have become a key concept characterizing the expressive condition of the Romantic writer? Stripping away the modern usages of the term, the study adopts a rigorously historical perspective and analyzes a number of texts that cast a revealing light on the articulation of a philosophical and poetic purchase on the concept of melancholy and its pathological semantics.

Wilhelm Voßkamp, geboren 1936, ist Professor für Neuere Deutsche Literatur/Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft und Geschäftsführender Direktor des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskollegs "Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation" an der Universität zu Köln. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Utopieforschung, Bildungsroman, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Text-Bild-Beziehungen.

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