Structures of feeling

Structures of feeling: affectivity and the study of culture

by Sharma, Devika Tygstrup, Frederik

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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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  • Full title :Structures of feeling : affectivity and the study of culture / edited by Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup.

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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):De Gruyter
  • Place of Publication:Berlin
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2015.

The Physical Object

  • Description:vii, 267 s. : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783110369519, 3110369516, 9783110365498, 3110365499
  • oclc:on1001702176
  • Dewey Decimal:306.071

Table of Contents

Table of Contents; Introduction; Structures of Feeling; 1. Producing Affect; 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 Lezaić's Tilva Ro¿Ł; 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; 2. Affective Pasts; Compelling Affects / Structured Feelings: Remembering 9/11.

Staging Emotions: On Configurations of Emotional Selfhood, Gendered Bodies, and Politics in the Late Eighteenth CenturyNostalgia and Nostophobia: Emotional Memory in Joseph Roth and Herta M©ơller; 'Affects as Stabilizers of Memory'? The Literary Representation of Emotion, Affect, and Feeling in Self-Reflexive Autobiographies; "The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heart": The Narrative (Re)Construction of Emotions in John Banville's The Sea; 3. Affective Thinking; 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 Sorro…

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Subjects

Affect (Psychology) Affekt Culture -- Study and teaching Emotions -- Sociological aspects Geschichte Känslor -- sociala aspekter kulturstudier Künste

Writers

Sharma, Devika Tygstrup, Frederik

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