Affective Mapping
Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
Published on 1. July 2009
272 pages
978-0-674-03696-3 (ISBN)
Description
Flatley argues that embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to an invigorated relationship with the world around them. He demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03696-3 (9780674036963)
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11/2008
Harvard University Press
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Person
Jonathan Flatley is Associate Professor of English, Wayne State University.
Content
Contents Introduction: Melancholize 1 Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling 1. Modernism and Melancholia a. Modernity and Loss b. Melancholia's History c. Freud on Melancholia: Shadow and Precipitate d. Transference; or Affects in Psychoanalysis e. Walter Benjamin: Melancholy as Method 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.1/4E.1/4B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk 5. Andrei Platonov's Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur Notes Acknowledgments Index
