Modernism and Affect / / Julie Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Julie,
• MitwirkendeR: Atkinson, Paul,; Attridge, John,; Cole, Richard,; Dick, Maria-Daniella,; Duffy, Michelle,; Garrington, Abbie,; Hadjiyiannis, Christos,; Haynes, Doug,; McLaughlan, Robbie,; Nieland, Justus,; Taylor, Julie,; Winning, Joanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations

This collection reconsiders Modernism in the light of the humanities' affective turn"This book addresses an under-researched area of modernist studies, reconsidering modernist attitudes towards feeling in the light of the humanities' turn to affect. The eleven original chapters and chapter-length introduction consider the affective dimensions of a range of forms and media - including literature, architecture, philosophy, dance, visual art, and design - tracing modernism from its origins in the nineteenth-century to its afterlives in the postwar period. Modernism and Affect engages with contemporary theories of affect but also turns to a surprisingly wide range of theoretical models - including psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory and poststructuralism - as it emphasises the complexities of modernist affect and emotion.Key FeaturesPresents 11 original essays by international scholars exploring the relationships between modernism and affectOffers a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to modernist studiesChallenges the assumption that modernism is marked by a lack of interest in the emotionsOutlines influential theories of affect for scholars and students of modernist studies"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Modernism and Affect -- Chapter 1 Mind, Body and Embarrassment in Henry James's The Awkward Age -- Chapter 2 The Trauma of Form: Death Drive as Affect in À la -- Chapter 3 Affective Ethical Valuing in Hulme and Scheler Logic of the Heart: Affective Ethical Valuing in T. E. Hulme and Max Scheler -- Chapter 4 The Line that Binds: Climbing Narratives, Ropework and Epistolary Practice -- Chapter 5 The Amplification of Affect: Tension, Intensity and Form in Modern Dance -- Chapter 6 Love and the Art Object -- Chapter 7 Animating Cane: Race, Affect, History and Jean Toomer -- Chapter 8 Fear and Precarious Life after Political Representation in Baudelaire -- Chapter 9 Bloom-Space of Theory: The Pleasure and the Bliss of Gerty MacDowell -- Chapter 10 From Odysseus to Rotpeter: Adorno and Kafka, Mimicry and Happiness -- Chapter 11 Making Happy, Happy-making: The Eameses and Communication by Design -- Index