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Affective Mapping : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674036963
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Affective MappingDDC classification:
  • 810.9/353
LOC classification:
  • PS214
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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