| Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice: A Feel for the Text 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Ahern, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319972677 ISBN-13: 9783319972671 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 801 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.06 lbs) 263 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 postcritical moment. |