Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism – serie
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26 produkter
Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts
Politics, Ecologies, and Form
Av Amanda Bailey, Mario DiGangi
Inbunden, 2017
1632 kr
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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 culture. Engaging various historical …
Mourning and Creativity in Proust
Inbunden, 2017
1257 kr
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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 particular historical and social …
Queer Experimental Literature
The Affective Politics of Bad Reading
Häftad, 2018
383 kr
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This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective relations of reading through experiments with literary form. Teagan Bradway conceptualizes “bad reading” as an affective politics that stimulates queer relations of erotic and political belonging in the event of reading. These incipiently …
Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing
Inbunden, 2018
662 kr
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Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented more traditional archival …
Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy
Dreams We Learn
Häftad, 2019
998 kr
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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 traditional psychoanalysis and theories …
Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro
Av Amelia DeFalco, Lorraine York
Häftad, 2019
1019 kr
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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, including affect studies, ethical …
Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis
Inbunden, 2020
900 kr
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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 empathy, the poems under …
Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis
Häftad, 2021
900 kr
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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 empathy, the poems under …
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections
Av Louise Joy
Inbunden, 2020
1019 kr
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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 works by Isaac Watts, Lord …
Eighteenth-Century Literary Affections
Av Louise Joy
Häftad, 2021
1019 kr
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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 works by Isaac Watts, Lord …
Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature
South Africa's Wounded Feelings
Av Mark Libin
Inbunden, 2020
602 kr
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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 affective, emotional project. Through …
Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature
South Africa's Wounded Feelings
Av Mark Libin
Häftad, 2021
602 kr
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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 affective, emotional project. Through …
Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Afterlives of the Nightingale’s Song
Inbunden, 2024
1316 kr
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Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emotive speech in literary texts from the classical to the early modern periods. More specifically, …
Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature
Afterlives of the Nightingale’s Song
Häftad, 2025
1316 kr
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Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emotive speech in literary texts from the classical to the early modern periods. More specifically, …
Speculative Affect
Objects and Emotions
Inbunden, 2025
1911 kr
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Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production. The word “speculative” in the title references recent philosophical and cultural work in the “speculative …
Speculative Affect
Objects and Emotions
Häftad, 2026
1911 kr
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Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions is an edited collection examining the intersection between affect and objects in the fields of literature, cultural theory, and cultural production. The word “speculative” in the title references recent philosophical and cultural work in the “speculative …
Disorder, Affect, and Modernist Literature
Empathy After Entropy
Inbunden, 2025
543 kr
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Modernist literature is defined by entropic characteristics. Its common themes include fragmentation, uncertainty, distrust, and misunderstanding. Alongside these themes, however, exists a desire to rebuild, to distill elements of past constructs into something that can provide stability in the …
Disorder, Affect, and Modernist Literature
Empathy After Entropy
Häftad, 2026
544 kr
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Modernist literature is defined by entropic characteristics. Its common themes include fragmentation, uncertainty, distrust, and misunderstanding. Alongside these themes, however, exists a desire to rebuild, to distill elements of past constructs into something that can provide stability in the …
Catastrophe Pedagogy
Writing, Disaffection, and the Wounded Student
Inbunden, 2026
485 kr
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As writing and language teachers, we recognize the difference immediately; an event has occurred, and a new subject has appeared in the classroom. Increasingly our students struggle to pay attention, to dissociate from their cell phones, to complete work, to show up to class, to formulate their own …
Shame and the Aging Woman
Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings
Inbunden, 2016
1197 kr
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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 describes older women’s …
Seduction of Fiction
A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation
Inbunden, 2016
602 kr
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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 literature, Jean-François …
Shame and the Aging Woman
Confronting and Resisting Ageism in Contemporary Women's Writings
Häftad, 2018
1078 kr
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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 describes older women’s …
Seduction of Fiction
A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation
Häftad, 2018
602 kr
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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 literature, Jean-François …
Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro
Av Amelia DeFalco, Lorraine York
Inbunden, 2018
1435 kr
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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, including affect studies, ethical …
Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy
Dreams We Learn
Inbunden, 2018
1078 kr
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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 traditional psychoanalysis and theories …
Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice
A Feel for the Text
Inbunden, 2019
1673 kr
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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the …
