The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

by Donald R. Wehrs (editor)

1 Affect and Contemporary Inquiry in Historical Contexts32 Place-in-Process in Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship : Human Affect and the Physical Environment.- 2 Affect and James, Dewey, Tomkins, Damasio, Massumi, Spinoza.- 3 Affect Studies and Cognitive Approaches to Literature.- 4 The Bio-Cultural Evolution of Language and Prosocial Emotions.- 5 Trust in Theatre.-6 Social Categorization, Cognition, and Affect.-7 Affective Aversion, Ethics, and Fiction.- 8 Affect and Narratology.- 9 The Turn to Emotions without Subjects, Causality without Demonstrable Cause.-10 Are there States of Mind Which We Can Call "Inner Sensuousness"?.- 11 Affect and Intention in Rhetoric and Poetics.- 12 Empathy and Types of Textuality and Degrees of Affectivity.- 13 "That's Deep!": The Role of Being Moved and Feelings of Profundity in the Appreciation of Serious Narratives.- 14 The Priority of Kenneth Burke and the Rediscovery of Affect and Rhetoric.- 15 Tragedy "Before" Pity and Fear.- 16 Narrative and Affect in Epic, Romance, and the Novel.- 17 Empathy's Neglected How Narratives Shape Our Sympathy.- 18 Laurence Sterne's "Poor Maria" as Model of Empathic Response.-19 Film and Affect, Theories The Case of the War Genre in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998).- 20 Medieval English Texts and Narratives as Tools for Feeling.- 21 Rhythmic Cognition in Late Medieval BL MS Harley 2253.-22 A Wild Affect and Reception of Fernando de Rojas' Celestina (1499).- 23 Don Quixote's Affective Thoughts.- 24 Descartes, Emotions and the Inner Life of the Subject.- 25 "The History and Science of Feeling": Wordsworth's Affective Poetics, Then and Now.- 26 Kierkegaard's "Ugly Feelings".- 27 Affect and the Victorian Novel.-28 Affect in Film A Brief History.- 29 Affect and Fascism in Lolita.- 30 From Bateman to Rat American Psycho 's Unnatural Selections.- 31 Fascism, Torture, and Affect in Postwar Memoria Histórica Narratives and Audience Empathy.

916 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2017

About the author

Donald R. "Don" Wehrs, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), is Hargis Professor of English Literature in the Department of English at Auburn University, Alabama. He specializes in novel genre and history, British eighteenth-century studies, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, and is the author of three books on African fiction.