LEADER 04101nam 22005775 450 001 9911011817703321 005 20250701130236.0 010 $a9783031924637 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-92463-7 035 $a(CKB)39542303600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32186374 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32186374 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-92463-7 035 $a(OCoLC)1527895903 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939542303600041 100 $a20250701d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisorder, Affect, and Modernist Literature $eEmpathy After Entropy /$fby Matthew Phillips 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (99 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,$x2634-632X 311 08$a9783031924620 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter I ?Lower and Lower, and Down?: Entropy, Empathy, and Art in Stephen Crane?s ?The Open Boat? -- Chapter 2 ?Dreams of Leaves Decaying for a Vernal Stalk?: Entropy and Empathy in Jean Toomer's ?Withered Skin of Berries? -- Chapter 3 ?Things Must Spoil?: Necessary Entropy in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse -- Chapter 4 Darkening Entropy and Empathy in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night -- Chapter 5 Epilogue. 330 $aModernist literature is defined by entropic characteristics. Its common themes include fragmentation, uncertainty, distrust, and misunderstanding. Alongside these themes, however, exists a desire to rebuild, to distill elements of past constructs into something that can provide stability in the chaotic present. Historically, modernist studies has focused on the former, without ample attention given to how entropic circumstances alter human emotion and affect. This book offers a new way of conceptualizing the modernist experience of alienation, disorder, and system deterioration as not merely negative, but productive in facilitating new structures of feeling and social adhesion. It pushes extant literary evaluations of entropy into a new realm by interrogating the human cost of entropic circumstances, and shows that we can use the process of entropy as a metaphorical lens through which to further understand the human connections and shared experiences reflected in modernist literature. Matthew Phillips is a Lecturer at UNC Greensboro, USA, where he has designed and taught courses on "Empathy and Imagination" and "Quarantine Literature". Matthew?s existing and forthcoming publications exhibit a wide-ranging research portfolio. Most recently, he has used the scientific principal of entropy as a metaphorical lens to study the phenomenon of the entropy/empathy paradigm, arguing that in works by Jean Toomer and Virginia Woolf, as well as in those temporally bookending modernism by Stephen Crane and Eugene O'Neill, an accumulation of entropy unpredictably results in an increase in empathic potential. Matthew has also published on Evelyn Waugh and Richard Hakluyt in an article that interrogates divergent depictions of empathy and religion in their respective work. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism,$x2634-632X 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary Criticism 606 $aLiterary Theory 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Criticism. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 676 $a809.9112 700 $aPhillips$b M$0350027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911011817703321 996 $aDisorder, Affect, and Modernist Literature$94529618 997 $aUNINA