Writing Emotions : Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature / Ingeborg Jandl, Susanne Knaller, Sabine Schönfellner, Gudrun Tockner
After a long period of neglect, emotions have become an important topic within literary studies. This collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components and discusses emotional patterns by focusing on the practice of writing as well as on the impa...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lettre
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 9 Emotions and the Process of Writing 17 The Affective Value of Fiction Presenting and Evoking Emotions 29 The Author - "Specialize[d] in Having Fun"? Cognitive Theories of Emotion and Literary Studies in the Context of Two Interviews with Michael Stavari 55 Emotions and/in Religion Reading Sigmund Freud, Rudolph Otto, and William James 77 Autism, Love, and Writing in and around Russian Literature On Feeling, Non-Feeling and Writing as a Communicative Medium to Express Emotions 99 Riding Emotions The Motorcycle as a Vehicle of Political E/Motions in Rachel Kushner's Novel The Flamethrowers 123 "[] which approximates 'I love you'." Jonathan Safran Foer's Punctuation of Emotions 137 Form and Emotion in Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower 159 The Intermediality of Emotion Representations of Emotionality and Fear in YouTube Vlogs and Beyond 175 "'Tis Magic, Magic that Hath Ravished Me" Passionate Conjuring in Doctor Faustus and The Devil's Charter 197 Passionate Writing The Rhythms of Jealousy in Early Modern English Texts and Drama 215 When the Author Is Not the Author of Passions J.J. Engel's Herr Lorenz Stark and the Pathognomy of Style 233 How to Study Emotion Effects in Literature Written Emotions in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" 247 Posthuman Nostalgia? Re-Evaluating Human Emotions in Michel Houellebecq's La possibilité d'une île .. 265 Writing Disgust, Writing Realities The Complexity of Negative Emotions in Émile Zola's Nana 277 Breaking the Ice, Freezing the Laughter Authorial Empathy, Reader Response, and the Kafkaesque Poetics of Guilt and Shame 295 Hiding One's Feelings 'Emotionless' Rhetoric in Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews and Peter Weiss's Die Ermittlung 311 Love under Threat The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga 347 AUTHORS 379