Published: 2024-04-24

Can Joy in Literature be as philosophical as melancholy? Some preliminary Thoughts

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Section: Articles and Studies
https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.07.02

Abstract

Can joy be as philosophical in literature as melancholy? The article is devoted to this question. In discussing the issue, the author focuses in particular on the 18th century and Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The publication of this novel and its reception can be considered as a turning point in the history of so-called high literature, which from then on will generally favor melancholy as the central existential human experience, and as the most philosophical one.

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Musiał, Łukasz. (2024). Can Joy in Literature be as philosophical as melancholy? Some preliminary Thoughts. Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, (1(7), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.31261/FLPI.2024.07.02

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Published: 2024-06-03


eISSN: 2658-185X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/FLPI

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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