The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East–West exchanges and cultural dialogues. It explores the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific social norms and cultural products such as literature, film and any other forms of arts/genres, etc. In his 1917 work  Mourning and Melancholia  (Trauer und Melancholie), Sigmund Freud connected the grief of loss