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An Anatomy of Melancholy from Goya and Edgar Allan Poe to Bauhaus and Tim Burton (independent.co.uk)
36 points by pmoriarty on May 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



One would have thought that they could have worked in a reference to "Supernatural Horror in Literature", since most of the texts they they list are highlighted there.

And oddly, I was just watching a lecture by Andrew George at Harvard's Semitic Museum on The Epic of Gilgamesh. It, too, is pretty melancholy.


I was more surprised that they included Tim Burton but not Robert Burton, considering he wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy


I’m not very impressed at all, to be fair. The only place I was even felt positive they pointed out was Nine Inch Nails’ synth pop artistic lineage, which I think is essential for fully understanding what he has to say. It’s like a high school essay fluff piece.

As an aside, I have come to expect little from a site so fixated on exploiting trypophobia for their ad scheme.


While reading the title, I was briefly hoping this would be about the webcomic A Softer World. They bundled their best comics in a book titled The Anatomy of Melancholy.




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