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Affect theory and literary critical practice
a feel for the text
Abstract
Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern. While building readings of representative texts, contributors reflect on the value of affect theory to literary critical practice, asking: what explanatory power is affect theory affording me here as a critic? what can the insights of the theory help me do with a text? Contributors work to incorporate lines of theory not always read together, accounting for the affective intensities that circulate through texts and readers and tracing the operations of affectively charged social scripts. Drawing variously on queer, feminist and critical race theory and informed by ecocritical and new materialist sensibilities, essays in the volume share a critical practice founded in an ethics of relation and contribute to an emerging moment of postcritique.
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a feel for the text
pp.1-21
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_1affective suspension and medieval queer futurity
pp.25-43
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_2affect theory and a new literary materialism
pp.45-63
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_3narrating intensity
pp.65-82
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_4pp.85-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_5the form–content implosion of Shelley's the Cenci
pp.105-120
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_6pp.121-137
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_7speed, affect, and modern literature
pp.161-182
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_9affective becomings in William Faulkner and Carson Mccullers
pp.183-197
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_10black feminist literature and its affective flights
pp.201-216
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_11pp.217-233
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_12ecocriticism, affect, and the case of H is for hawk
pp.235-249
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_13Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2019
Pages: 263
Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-97267-1
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-97268-8
Full citation:
Ahern Stephen (2019) Affect theory and literary critical practice: a feel for the text. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.