Research Catalog

Title

Emotions through literature : fictional narratives, society and the emotional self / Mariano Longo.

Author

Longo, Mariano

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Details

Description

203 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources. With a specific focus on literary narrative, including the works of figures such as Dante, Austen, Manzoni and Tolstoy and Kundera, the author draws out the capacity of literary works to describe and represent both the external aspects of social relations and the inner motivations of the involved actors. An interdisciplinary study that combines sociology, narratology, philosophy, historical analysis and literary criticism, Emotions through Literature invites us to re-think the role of emotions in sociological analysis, employing literary narratives to give plausible intellectual responses to the double nature of emotions, their being both individual and sociale." --

Series Statement

Classical and contemporary social theory

Uniform Title

Classical and contemporary social theory.

Alternative Title

Fictional narratives, society and the emotional self

Subject

• Emotions in literature
• Emotions > Social aspects
• Self-management (Psychology)
• Fiction > Social aspects
• Fiction > History and criticism
• Fiction

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

By way of introduction : a sociology of emotions through literature -- Sociology and emotions : an overview -- Emotions and their history : a sociological perspective -- Emotions and literature -- Action, emotions and emotional control : a reading of Philip Roth's American Pastoral -- The emotional crowd -- Envy, social order and social change -- Of love, its semantic and its social function.

Call Number

JFE 19-11257

ISBN

• 9780415793384
• 0415793386
• 9781351811705 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351811712 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351811699 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781315211114 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019014295

OCLC

1097461752

Author

Longo, Mariano, author.

Title

Emotions through literature : fictional narratives, society and the emotional self / Mariano Longo.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Classical and contemporary social theory

Classical and contemporary social theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Longo, Mariano, author. Emotions through literature First edition. Oxon, New York : Routledge, 2019 9781315211114 (DLC) 2019018330

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11257