A Voluntary End of Earth. Melancholia and Jean Améry

This essay interrogates the semantics of finality in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia “(2011), in the light of Austrian theorist Jean Améry’s 1976 study On Suicide. A Discourse on Voluntary Death“. I suggest an apsychological reading of Melancholia“, to unwrap its narrative and philosophical reflections...

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Main Author: Sebastian Thede
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2015-11-01
Series:Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
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Online Access:https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/245
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