Affective Mapping : : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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