Télécharger le livre :  Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the “new” South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections

This book assesses the mediating role played by 'affections' in eighteenth-century contestations about reason and passion, questioning their availability and desirability outside textual form. It examines the formulation and idealization of this affective category in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis

This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The text argues that, recognizing both the possibilities and dangers of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-12-31
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins’ Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy. The book begins with an overview of Tomkins’ relationship to both...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro

Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts

The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-22
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Mourning and Creativity in Proust

This study explores Proust’s answers to some of the fundamental challenges of the inevitable human experience of mourning. Thinking mourning and creativity together allows for a fresh approach to the modernist novel at large, but also calls for a reassessment of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  The Seduction of Fiction

By meshing psychology with literary analysis, this book inspires us to view the reading of fictional works as an emotional and seductive affair between reader and writer. Arguing that current teaching practices have contributed to the current decline in the study of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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Télécharger le livre :  Shame and the Aging Woman

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists, and feminist gerontologists in order to unfurl the affective dynamics of gendered ageism. In her analysis of what she calls “embodied shame,” J. Brooks Bouson...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
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