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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483515903321

Titolo

Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice : A Feel for the Text / / edited by Stephen Ahern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319972688 (eBook)

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism, , 2634-632X

Disciplina

811.609

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Literature, Modern - 18th century

Literature, Medieval

Literary Theory

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Contemporary Literature

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Medieval Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: A Feel for the Text, Stephen Ahern -- Part I Feeling Early Modern -- 2. The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity, Wan-Chuan Kao -- 3. (Non-)Belief in Things: Affect Theory and A New Literary Materialism, Neil Vallelly -- 4. Semblances of Affect in the Early English Novel: Narrating Intensity, Joel P. Sodano -- Part II Affective Transmissions, Romantic to Victorian -- 5. Reading and the Sociality of Disappointing Affects in Jane Austen, Carmen Faye Mathes -- 6. Shame and its Affects: The Form–Content Implosion of Shelley’s The Cenci, Merrilees Roberts -- 7. Bodily Sympathy, Affect, and Victorian Sensation Fiction, Tara MacDonald --



8. Feeling Other(s): Dracula and the Ethics of Unmanageable Affect, Kimberly O’Donnell -- Part III Modernist Contingencies: Engaging the Ineffable -- 9. Glad Animals: Speed, Affect, and Modern Literature, Katherine G. Sutherland -- 10. Senses without Names: Affective Becomings in William Faulkner and Carson McCullers, Jill Marsden -- Part IV Bodies Write Back: Attending to Affect in Contemporary Writing -- 11. Invisible Memories: Black Feminist Literature and its Affective Flights, Jamie Rogers -- 12. On Good Listening, Postcritique, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Affective Testimony, Tobias Skiveren -- 13. Feeling Nature, Reconsidered: Ecocriticism, Affect, and the Case of H is for Hawk, Lisa Ottum.

Sommario/riassunto

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 postmodern. While building readings of representative texts, contributors reflect on the value of affect theory to literary critical practice, asking: what explanatory power is affect theory affording me here as a critic? what can the insights of the theory help me do with a text? Contributors work to incorporate lines of theory not always read together, accounting for the affective intensities that circulate through texts and readers and tracing the operations of affectively charged social scripts. Drawing variously on queer, feminist and critical race theory and informed by ecocritical and new materialist sensibilities, essays in the volume share a critical practice founded in an ethics of relation and contribute to an emerging moment of postcritique.