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Modernism and Affect: Feeling in Modern Literature and Culture by Julie Taylor; Paul Atkinson; John Attridge; Richard Cole; Maria-Daniella Dick; Michelle Duffy; Abbie Garrington; Christos Hadjiyiannis; Doug Haynes; Robbie McLaughlan; Justus Nieland; Joanne Winning is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book contains eleven original multi-disciplinary chapters – and one chapter-length introduction – that explore the affective dimensions of modernism. Modernism has often been characterized by its blunt opposition to both the kitsch sentimentality of mass culture and the expressive emotionality of Romanticism, and so its relationship to affective matters has historically been underexplored. The chapters in this book reconsider the complexity of modernist attitudes towards feeling in the light of theory’s turn to matters of embodiment, materiality, and affect. However, __Modernism and Affect__ does not rely on a homogeneous theory of affect, but rather explores modernist feeling from a variety of theoretical and historical positions. While some chapters consider modernist texts alongside theorists associated with the recent upsurge of interest in affect, such as Brian Massumi, Giles Deleuze, and Sianne Ngai, others engage with longer histories of emotion, and find a wide range of models helpful in rethinking modernist feeling, including psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory, and even the deconstructive linguistic philosophy with which the ‘affective turn’ has been oppos
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- Author
- Julie Taylor; Paul Atkinson; John Attridge; Richard Cole; Maria-Daniella Dick; Michelle Duffy; Abbie Garrington; Christos Hadjiyiannis; Doug Haynes; Robbie McLaughlan; Justus Nieland; Joanne Winning
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780748693252
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Art, Psychology
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