Affective Mapping : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism.
Flatley, Jonathan.
Affective Mapping : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages)
Intro -- 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.
Flatley argues that embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to an invigorated relationship with the world around them. He 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.
9780674036963
James, Henry,-1843-1916.-Turn of the screw.
Du Bois, W. E. B.-(William Edward Burghardt),-1868-1963.-Souls of Black folk.
Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich,-1899-1951.-Chevengur.
American literature-19th century-History and criticism.
American literature-20th century-History and criticism.
Melancholy in literature.
Melancholy-Social aspects.
Modernism (Literature).
Electronic books.
PS214
810.9/353
Affective Mapping : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (272 pages)
Intro -- 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.
Flatley argues that embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to an invigorated relationship with the world around them. He 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.
9780674036963
James, Henry,-1843-1916.-Turn of the screw.
Du Bois, W. E. B.-(William Edward Burghardt),-1868-1963.-Souls of Black folk.
Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich,-1899-1951.-Chevengur.
American literature-19th century-History and criticism.
American literature-20th century-History and criticism.
Melancholy in literature.
Melancholy-Social aspects.
Modernism (Literature).
Electronic books.
PS214
810.9/353