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Contributes an innovative approach to studying the cross section of affect theory and literary studies
Brings together a wide range of renowned and junior scholars on the subject of literary affect
Includes interdisciplinary discussions beyond literature such as history, film, theatre, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contexts and Foci
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Front Matter
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Affectivity and Textuality
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- effect of fiction on empathy
- William James and affect theory
- Brian Massumi
- Sylvan Tomkins
- Antonio Damasio
- cognitive literary studies
- Jordan Zlatev
- evolution of language
- trust in shakespearean plays
- social categorization
- formation of in-groups and out-groups
- neuroscience and affect
- affect and ethical development
- plasticity of empathy
- Gilles Deleuze
- New Materialism
- deconstruction of reason
- Kenneth Burke and aesthetic form
- affect and tragedy
- Jane Austen and Affect
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of English, Auburn University, Auburn, USA
Donald R. Wehrs
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English/Philosophy Department, Monroe Community College, Rochester, USA
Thomas Blake
About the editors
Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature, critical theory, and comparative literature. He is editor of Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature (2013), co-editor of Cognition, Literature, and History ( 2014), and co-editor of Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009). He has published three monographs on twentieth-century African fiction—Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives (2008), Islam, Ethics, Revolt (2008), and African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values (2001)—as well as book chapters and journal articles on British fiction, Shakespeare, postcolonial literature, and medieval romance.
Thomas Blake is Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Monroe Community College, New York. He is author of “Maternity, Morality, and Metaphor: Galdos’s Doña Perfecta, Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, and Andalusian Culture,” in Cognition, Literature, and History (2014) and “Staging Heidegger: Corporeal Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the Theater” in Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life (Springer, 2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism
Editors: Donald R. Wehrs, Thomas Blake
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63303-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63302-2Published: 19 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87522-4Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63303-9Published: 01 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 883
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History