Melancholic joy : on life worth living

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"--

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ISBN: 9781350177741
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
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Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2021).