La canso est-elle de la poésie didactique ? Enquête dans la poésie des troubadours au douzième et treizième siècles by Pierre Levron

“…The first one is the lyric definition of the melancholia, which is built in a parallel to the medical models; the nature of the lover or of the beloved one, which can make the melancholy possible or impossible; the conflict between the ideal and the reality, and, for the last point, the solutions for the love melancholy, and the questions they cause.…”
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Laberinth of Errors: Celestinesque Ploys against Death by Harry Vélez Quiñones

“…As prescribed by Rojas’s foundational text, all too frequently the characters of the celestinesque genre meet cruel ends. Lovers die, servants murder each other, revenge is exacted, relatives stand alone grieving, and, as sure as old age often prefigures death, an air of melancholy is common to these texts. …”
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Maux de l'étranger. Mots de l'étrangeté dans Summertime de J.M. Coetzee by Cécile Birks

“…Coetzee's fictional protagonist stands out not only as an outsider but also as a melancholy philologist caught up in a profoundly estranged relationship with the languages he had been brought up in and had to speak and work with, and, subsequently, with his culture, family and lovers. …”
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