The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

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This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in literary, film, and art criticism, as well as in critical theory, rhetoric, performance studies, and aesthetics. Guiding readers to the variety of topics, themes, interdisciplinary dialogues, and sub-disciplinary specialties that the study of interplay between affect and texts has either inaugurated or revitalized, the handbook showcases and engages the diversity of scholarly topics, approaches, and projects that thinking of affect in relation to texts and related media open up or enable. These include (but are not limited to) investigations of what attention to affect brings to established methods of studying texts—in terms of period, genre, cultural contexts, rhetoric, and individual authorship. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Introduction: Affect and Texts: Contemporary Inquiry in Historical Context (Donald R. Wehrs)....Pages 1-93 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Affect and Emotion: James, Dewey, Tomkins, Damasio, Massumi, Spinoza (Kate Stanley)....Pages 97-112 Affect Studies and Cognitive Approaches to Literature (Brook Miller)....Pages 113-133 The Bio-Cultural Evolution of Language and Prosocial Emotions (Bruce McConachie)....Pages 135-154 Trust in Theater (Julia Reinhard Lupton)....Pages 155-181 Social Identity: Categorization, Cognition, and Affect (Patrick Colm Hogan)....Pages 183-205 Affective Aversion, Ethics, and Fiction (Thomas Blake)....Pages 207-234 Affect and Narratology (Claudia Breger)....Pages 235-257 The Turn to Affect: Emotions Without Subjects, Causality Without Demonstrable Cause (Richard C. Sha)....Pages 259-278 Are There States of Mind Which We Can Call “Inner Sensuousness”? (Charles Altieri)....Pages 279-298 Affect and Intention in Rhetoric and Poetics (Marshall Alcorn)....Pages 299-322 Front Matter ....Pages 323-323 Empathy and Love: Types of Textuality and Degrees of Affectivity (Dana LaCourse Munteanu)....Pages 325-345 “That’s Deep!”: The Role of Being Moved and Feelings of Profundity in the Appreciation of Serious Narratives (Florian Cova, Julien Deonna, David Sander)....Pages 347-369 The Priority of Form: Kenneth Burke and the Rediscovery of Affect and Rhetoric (Jeff Pruchnic)....Pages 371-390 Tragedy “Before” Pity and Fear (Matthew J. Smith)....Pages 391-412 Narrative and Affect in Epic, Romance, and the Novel (Donald R. Wehrs)....Pages 413-449 Empathy’s Neglected Cousin: How Narratives Shape Our Sympathy (Howard Sklar)....Pages 451-480 Laurence Sterne’s “Poor Maria” as Model of Empathic Response (W. B. Gerard)....Pages 481-512 Film and Affect, Theories Entwined: The Case of the War Genre in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Speilberg, 1998) (Jaimey Fisher)....Pages 513-541 Front Matter ....Pages 543-543 Medieval English Texts and Affects: Narratives as Tools for Feeling (Antonina Harbus)....Pages 545-576 Rhythmic Cognition in Late Medieval Lyrics: BL MS Harley 2253 (Nicholas Myklebust)....Pages 577-608 A Wild Fable: Affect and Reception of Fernando de Rojas’ Celestina (1499) (Julien J. Simon)....Pages 609-625 Don Quixote’s Affective Thoughts (Howard Mancing)....Pages 627-652 Descartes, Emotions and the Inner Life of the Subject (Cecilia Sjöholm)....Pages 653-669 “The History and Science of Feeling”: Wordsworth’s Affective Poetics, Then and Now (Mark J. Bruhn)....Pages 671-693 Kierkegaard’s “Ugly Feelings” (Marta Figlerowicz)....Pages 695-711 Affect and the Victorian Novel (Audrey Jaffe)....Pages 713-733 Affect and Film Music: A Brief History (William Wehrs)....Pages 735-752 Affect and Fascism in Lolita (Lorna Wood)....Pages 753-780 From Bateman to Rat Man: American Psycho’s Unnatural Selections (Doug Haynes)....Pages 781-801 Fascism, Torture, and Affect in Postwar Spain: Memoria Histórica Narratives and Audience Empathy (Isabel Jaén)....Pages 803-826 Place-in-Process in Colm Toíbín’s The Blackwater Lightship: Emotion, Self-Identity, and the Environment (Nancy Easterlin)....Pages 827-854 Back Matter ....Pages 855-883