TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flatley,Jonathan
TI  - Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
SN  - 9780674036963
AV  - PS214 
U1  - 810.9/353 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - James, Henry,-1843-1916.-Turn of the screw
KW  - Du Bois, W. E. B.-(William Edward Burghardt),-1868-1963.-Souls of Black folk
KW  - Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich,-1899-1951.-Chevengur
KW  - American literature-19th century-History and criticism
KW  - American literature-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Melancholy in literature
KW  - Melancholy-Social aspects
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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