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Record Nr.

UNINA9910263842903321

Titolo

Writing Emotions : Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature / Ingeborg Jandl, Susanne Knaller, Sabine Schönfellner, Gudrun Tockner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

2018, c2017

ISBN

9783839437933

3839437938

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Lettre

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Emotion

Literature

Writing

Practice

Aesthetic

General Literature Studies

British Studies

German Literature

Romance Studies

Literary Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Preface    9 Emotions and the Process of Writing    17 The Affective Value of Fiction Presenting and Evoking Emotions    29 The Author - "Specialize[d] in Having Fun"? Cognitive Theories of Emotion and Literary Studies in the Context of Two Interviews with Michael Stavari    55 Emotions and/in Religion Reading Sigmund Freud, Rudolph Otto, and William James    77 Autism, Love, and Writing in and around Russian Literature On Feeling, Non-Feeling and Writing as a Communicative Medium to Express Emotions    99 Riding Emotions The Motorcycle as a Vehicle of Political E/Motions in Rachel Kushner's Novel The Flamethrowers    123 "[] which



approximates 'I love you'." Jonathan Safran Foer's Punctuation of Emotions    137 Form and Emotion in Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower    159 The Intermediality of Emotion Representations of Emotionality and Fear in YouTube Vlogs and Beyond    175 "'Tis Magic, Magic that Hath Ravished Me" Passionate Conjuring in Doctor Faustus and The Devil's Charter    197 Passionate Writing The Rhythms of Jealousy in Early Modern English Texts and Drama    215 When the Author Is Not the Author of Passions J.J. Engel's Herr Lorenz Stark and the Pathognomy of Style    233 How to Study Emotion Effects in Literature Written Emotions in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"    247 Posthuman Nostalgia? Re-Evaluating Human Emotions in Michel Houellebecq's La possibilité d'une île ..    265 Writing Disgust, Writing Realities The Complexity of Negative Emotions in Émile Zola's Nana    277 Breaking the Ice, Freezing the Laughter Authorial Empathy, Reader Response, and the Kafkaesque Poetics of Guilt and Shame    295 Hiding One's Feelings 'Emotionless' Rhetoric in Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews and Peter Weiss's Die Ermittlung    311 Love under Threat The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga    347 AUTHORS    379

Sommario/riassunto

After a long period of neglect, emotions have become an important topic within literary studies. This collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components and discusses emotional patterns by focusing on the practice of writing as well as on the impact of such patterns on receptive processes. Readers interested in the topic will be presented with a concept of aesthetic emotions as formative both within the writing and the reading process. Essays, ranging in focus from the beginning of modern drama to digital formats and theoretical questions, examine examples from English, German, French, Russian and American literature. Contributors include Angela Locatelli, Vera Nünning, and Gesine Lenore Schiewer.

Besprochen in:  literaturkritik.de, 8 (2017), Jan Süselbeck