Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice write by Stephen Ahern. This book was released on 2018-12-31. Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern. While building readings of representative texts, contributors reflect on the value of affect theory to literary critical practice, asking: what explanatory power is affect theory affording me here as a critic? what can the insights of the theory help me do with a text? Contributors work to incorporate lines of theory not always read together, accounting for the affective intensities that circulate through texts and readers and tracing the operations of affectively charged social scripts. Drawing variously on queer, feminist and critical race theory and informed by ecocritical and new materialist sensibilities, essays in the volume share a critical practice founded in an ethics of relation and contribute to an emerging postcritical moment.
Affect and Literature
Affect and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affect and Literature write by Alex Houen. This book was released on 2020-02-06. Affect and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.
The Hundreds
The Hundreds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hundreds write by Lauren Berlant. This book was released on 2019-01-15. The Hundreds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
Depression
Depression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Depression write by Ann Cvetkovich. This book was released on 2012-11-05. Depression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and writing her first book. Building on the insights of the memoir, in the critical essay she considers the idea that feeling bad constitutes the lived experience of neoliberal capitalism. Cvetkovich draws on an unusual archive, including accounts of early Christian acedia and spiritual despair, texts connecting the histories of slavery and colonialism with their violent present-day legacies, and utopian spaces created from lesbian feminist practices of crafting. She herself seeks to craft a queer cultural analysis that accounts for depression as a historical category, a felt experience, and a point of entry into discussions about theory, contemporary culture, and everyday life. Depression: A Public Feeling suggests that utopian visions can reside in daily habits and practices, such as writing and yoga, and it highlights the centrality of somatic and felt experience to political activism and social transformation.
The Ascent of Affect
The Ascent of Affect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ascent of Affect write by Ruth Leys. This book was released on 2017-11-10. The Ascent of Affect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings. Ruth Leys’s brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and disagreement. The Ascent of Affect focuses on the post–World War II period, when interest in emotions as an object of study began to revive. Leys analyzes the ongoing debate over how to understand emotions, paying particular attention to the continual conflict between camps that argue for the intentionality or meaning of emotions but have trouble explaining their presence in non-human animals and those that argue for the universality of emotions but struggle when the question turns to meaning. Addressing the work of key figures from across the spectrum, considering the potentially misleading appeal of neuroscience for those working in the humanities, and bringing her story fully up to date by taking in the latest debates, Leys presents here the most thorough analysis available of how we have tried to think about how we feel.
