Screen LibraryStructures of feeling : affectivity and the study of culture /
Taking as its point of departure Raymond Williams notion structure of feeling , this volume investigates how affectivity makes a difference in memory studies, performance studies, and the range of cultural studies across the humanities and social sciences today. It illustrates the importance of theo...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Concepts for the study of culture (csc);
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| Summary: |
Taking as its point of departure Raymond Williams notion structure of feeling , this volume investigates how affectivity makes a difference in memory studies, performance studies, and the range of cultural studies across the humanities and social sciences today. It illustrates the importance of theorizing affectivity at a moment when social and cultural life are becoming increasingly affect-driven. |
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1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | 6 schw.-w. Abb. |
| ISBN: | 9783110365481 |
| Index Number: | HM623 |
| CLC: | G0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Structures of Feeling / Mediashock / Parsing Affective Economies of Race, Sexuality, and Gender: The Case of Nasty Love / Affect Image, Touch Image / Introducing Wounds: Challenging the Crap Theory of Pain in Nikola Lezai s Tilva Ro / Affect, Bio-politics and the Field of Contemporary Performing Arts / Reflections on Fear as a Structure of Feeling in Large Scale Installations in Contemporary Art / Compelling Affects / Structured Feelings: Remembering 9/11 / Staging Emotions: On Configurations of Emotional Selfhood, Gendered Bodies, and Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century / Nostalgia and Nostophobia: Emotional Memory in Joseph Roth and Herta M ller / Affects as Stabilizers of Memory ? / "The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heart": The Narrative (Re)Construction of Emotions in John Banville s The Sea / Affect and Feminist Methodology, Or What Does It Mean to be Moved? / The Curious Case of Affective Hospitality: Curiosity, Affect, and Pierre Klossowski s Laws of Hospitality / "What Can This Sorrow Be?": Elegiac Affectivity in Virginia Woolf s Jacob s Room / "One Thing Melts into Another": Unanimism, Affect, and Imagery in Virginia Woolf s The Waves / Towards a New Thinking on Humanism in Fernand Deligny s Network / Sympathetic Mobilisation / A Strategic Romance? / Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Video Blogs: On the Aesthetic-Affective Dimension of Individual Fertility Projects on YouTube / Articulations of Well-being in Images of Beauty and Health / How to meet the Strange Stranger : A Sketch for an Affective Biophilia / The Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Theories of Affect and their Impact on Artistic Creation: A Study Based on Several Key Chinese Words / Index -- Names. |