Structures of Feeling : : Affectivity and the Study of Culture / / ed. by Devika Sharma, Frederik Tygstrup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Baake-Hansen, Martin,; Bajda, Anja,; Damsholt, Tine,; Dilling-Hansen, Lise,; Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Katrine,; Frink, Stephanie,; Greyson, Lauren,; Grusin, Richard,; Hemmings, Clare,; Knudsen, Britta Timm,; Kortesoja, Matti,; Lauraire, Heloïse,; Lönneker, Ane Martine,; Miguel, Marlon,; Milivojevic, Mirko,; Pedersen, Elisabeth Skou,; Peeren, Esther,; Ryder, Robert G.,; Soelmark, Nathalie W.,; Stage, Carsten,; Steinbock, Eliza,; Struth, Christiane,; Williams, Raymond,; Zhao, Yu,
• HerausgeberIn: Sharma, Devika,; Tygstrup, Frederik,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

Raymond Williams coined the notion "structure of feeling" in the 1970s to facilitate a historical understanding of "affective elements of consciousness and relationships." Since then, the need to understand emotions, moods and atmospheres as historical and social phenomena has on...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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 Roš
• 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 Century
• Nostalgia and Nostophobia: Emotional Memory in Joseph Roth and Herta Müller
• ‘Affects as Stabilizers of Memory’?
• “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 Sorrow Be?”: Elegiac Affectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room
• “One Thing Melts into Another”: Unanimism, Affect, and Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
• Towards a New Thinking on Humanism in Fernand Deligny’s Network
• 4. Circulating Affect
• Sympathetic Mobilisation
• A Strategic Romance?
• Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Video Blogs: On the Aesthetic-Affective Dimension of Individual Fertility Projects on YouTube
• Articulations of Well-being in Images of Beauty and Health
• How to meet the ‘Strange Stranger’: A Sketch for an Affective Biophilia
• The Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Theories of Affect and their Impact on Artistic Creation: A Study Based on Several Key Chinese Words
• Index
• Names