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Affect theory and literary critical practice

a feel for the text

edited byStephen Ahern

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.

Details | Table of Contents

The body in wonder

affective suspension and medieval queer futurity

Wan-Chuan Kao

pp.25-43

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_2
(Non-)belief in things

affect theory and a new literary materialism

Neil Vallelly

pp.45-63

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_3
Shame and its affects

the form–content implosion of Shelley's the Cenci

Merrilees Roberts

pp.105-120

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_6
Glad animals

speed, affect, and modern literature

Katherine G. Sutherland

pp.161-182

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_9
Senses without names

affective becomings in William Faulkner and Carson Mccullers

Jill Marsden

pp.183-197

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_10
Invisible memories

black feminist literature and its affective flights

pp.201-216

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_11
Feeling nature, reconsidered

ecocriticism, affect, and the case of H is for hawk

Lisa Ottum

pp.235-249

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97268-8_13

Publication 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.