Affective Mapping : : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism / / Jonathan FLATLEY.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: FLATLEY, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Melancholize --; Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling --; 1. Modernism and Melancholia --; 2. Affective Mapping --; 3. Reading into Henry James: Allegories of the Will to Know in The Turn of the Screw --; 4 "What a Mourning": Propaganda and Loss in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk --; 5. Andrei Platonov's Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674036963; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674036963
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan FLATLEY.

The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.