How to Do Things with Affects [print & e-book]
Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 11. April 2019
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978-90-04-39772-9 (ISBN)
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How to Do Things with Affects develops affects as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events and cultural practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays and animated pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media strategies and social situations.
Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomas Jirsa, Matthias Luethjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza Steinbock, Christiane Voss.
Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomas Jirsa, Matthias Luethjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza Steinbock, Christiane Voss.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39772-9 (9789004397729)
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Ernst van Alphen | Tomas Jirsa
How to Do Things with Affects
Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices
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04/2019
Brill
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Persons
Ernst van Alphen, Ph.D. (1988), University of Utrecht, is Professor of Literary studies at the University of Leiden. His most recent books are Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices (2018) and Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (2014).
Tomas Jirsa, Ph.D. (2012), Charles University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative literature at Palacky University Olomouc. He has published books and articles on the relations between modern literature and the visual arts, media theory and affective aesthetics of music videos.
Tomas Jirsa, Ph.D. (2012), Charles University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative literature at Palacky University Olomouc. He has published books and articles on the relations between modern literature and the visual arts, media theory and affective aesthetics of music videos.