Research Catalog

Title

Structures of feeling : affectivity and the study of culture / edited by Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Sharma, Devika
• Tygstrup, Frederik

Description

vii, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Concepts for the study of culture, 2190-3433 ; volume 5

Uniform Title

Concepts for the study of culture 5.

Subject

• Culture > Study and teaching
• Affect (Psychology)
• Emotions > Sociological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 specific large scale installations in contemporary art -- Compelling affects / structured feelings: remembering 9/11 -- Staging emotions: on configurations of emotional selfhood, gendered bodies, and politics in late eighteenth century -- Nostalgia and nostophobia: emotional memory in Joseph Roth and Herta Müller -- 'Affects as stabilizers of memory'? The literary representation of emotion, affect, and feeling in self-reflexive autobiographies -- "The past beats inside me like a second heart": The narrative (re)construction of emotions in John Banville's The Sea -- 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 -- Sympathetic mobilization -- A strategic romance? On the affective relation between Lady Gaga and her little monsters -- Experiences of assisted reproduction in video blogs: on the aesthetic-affective dimension of individual fertility projects on YouTube -- Articulation 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.

ISBN

• 9783110369519 (hd.bd.)
• 9783110365481 (PDF : online) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 896954263
• SCSB-11110591

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library