Affective mapping [[electronic resource] ] : melancholia and the politics of modernism / / Jonathan Flatley

• Autore: Flatley Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 263 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/353
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Melancholy in literature; Melancholy - Social aspects; Modernism (Literature)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: HT 5855
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Affective mapping
• ISBN: 0-674-03696-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455361803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II