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Author : Julie Taylor
Release : 2015-05-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism and Affect by : Julie Taylor
Download or read book Modernism and Affect written by Julie Taylor. This book was released on 2015-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses an under-researched area of modernist studies, reconsidering modernist attitudes towards feeling in the light of the humanities' turn to affect.
Author : Julie Taylor
Release : 2015-05-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism and Affect by : Julie Taylor
Download or read book Modernism and Affect written by Julie Taylor. This book was released on 2015-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses an under-researched area of modernist studies, reconsidering modernist attitudes towards feeling in the light of the humanities' turn to affect.
Author : Kara Watts
Release : 2019-03-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 078/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Affective Materialities by : Kara Watts
Download or read book Affective Materialities written by Kara Watts. This book was released on 2019-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and ecocriticism, two recent directions in literary studies not typically brought into conversation. Modernist creativity, the volume proposes, may return to us notions of the feeling, material body that contemporary scholarship has lost touch with, bodies that suggest alternative relations to others and to the world. Contributors argue that modernist writers frequently bridge the dichotomy between body and world by portraying bodies that merge with or are re-created by their surroundings into an amalgam of self and place. Chapters focus on this treatment of the body through works by canonical modernists including William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster alongside lesser-studied writers Janet Frame, Herbert Read, and Nella Larsen. Showing the ways the body in literature can be a lens for understanding the fluidities of race, gender, and sexuality, as well as species and subjectivity, this volume maps the connections among modernist aesthetics, histories of the twentieth-century body, and the concerns of modernism that can also speak to urgent concerns of today.
Author : Marta Figlerowicz
Release : 2017-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 236/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spaces of Feeling by : Marta Figlerowicz
Download or read book Spaces of Feeling written by Marta Figlerowicz. This book was released on 2017-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that they depend on others to solve their inward affective conundrums—and that, to these other people, their feelings often do not seem mysterious at all. Spaces of Feeling features close readings of works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and Wallace Stevens. Figlerowicz points out that these poets and novelists often place their protagonists in domestic spaces—such as bedrooms, living rooms, and basements—in which their cognitive dependence on other characters inhabiting these spaces becomes clear. Figlerowicz highlights the diversity of aesthetic and sociopolitical contexts in which these affective dependencies become central to these authors' representations of selfhood. By setting these novels and poems in conversation with the work of contemporary theorists, she illuminates pressing and unanswered questions about subjectivity.
Author : Julie Taylor
Release : 2012-02-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 378/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism by : Julie Taylor
Download or read book Djuna Barnes and Affective Modernism written by Julie Taylor. This book was released on 2012-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dynamic connections between the affective body and Djuna Barnes's textual corpus. The five chapters of this book reconsider modernist intertextuality, affect, and subjectivity to produce a series of lively and compelling readings of the major
