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Autore |
Flatley Jonathan |
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Titolo |
Affective mapping : melancholia and the politics of modernism / / Jonathan Flatley |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008 |
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0-674-26345-6 |
0-674-03696-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 263 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Melancholy in literature |
Melancholy - Social aspects |
Modernism (Literature) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Melancholize -- Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling -- 1. Modernism and Melancholia -- 2. Affective Mapping -- 3. Reading into Henry James: Allegories of the Will to Know in The Turn of the Screw -- 4 "What a Mourning": Propaganda and Loss in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk -- 5. Andrei Platonov's Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss. |
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