Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy : Dreams We Learn / / by Duncan A. Lucas

• Autore: Lucas Duncan A
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2018.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.2512
• Soggetto topico: Literature - Philosophy; Comparative literature; Literary Theory; Comparative Literature
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy
• ISBN: 9783319948638; 3319948636
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300040603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism, . 2634-632X