02679nam 22005055 450 991030004060332120230810194701.09783319948638331994863610.1007/978-3-319-94863-8(CKB)4100000006519776(MiAaPQ)EBC5510560(DE-He213)978-3-319-94863-8(Perlego)3494091(EXLCZ)99410000000651977620180908d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAffect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy Dreams We Learn /by Duncan A. Lucas1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (340 pages)Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,2634-632X9783319948621 3319948628 Part I Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tomkins and Literature: A Hermeneutical Model -- 3. Tragedy and the Trope of Disgust -- Part II Application -- 4. Case Study One: Sophocles' Oedipus -- 5. Case Study Two: Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 6. Case Study Three: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmen -- 7. Conclusions: Dreams We Learn.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 of human motivation and emotion, before considering tragedy via case studies of Oedipus, Hamlet, and Death of a Salesman. Aligning Affect-Script theory with literary genre studies, this text explores what motivates fictional characters within the closed conditions of their imagined worlds and how we as an audience relate to and understand fictional characters as motivated humans.Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,2634-632XLiteraturePhilosophyComparative literatureLiterary TheoryComparative LiteratureLiteraturePhilosophy.Comparative literature.Literary Theory.Comparative Literature.809.2512Lucas Duncan Aauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut981914BOOK9910300040603321Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy2240974UNINA