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Title How to do things with affects : affective triggers in aesthetic forms and cultural practices / edited by Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
Series Thamyris / intersecting: place, sex and race, 1570-7253 ; volume 34
Thamyris intersecting ; v. 34.
Contents Reading irony through affect: the non-sovereign ironic subject in C.P. Cavafy's diary / Maria Boletsi -- (An)aesthetics of affect: the case of hyper-realism / Pietro Conte -- Relational affect: perspectives from philosophy and cultural studies / Jan Slaby -- (Nearly) nothing to express: horror: some tread: a toroid / Eugenie Brinkema -- Integrating affect and language: essayism as an affective practice in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities / Annie Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann -- Affective disfigurations: faceless encounters between literary modernism and the great war / Tomáš Jirsa -- Monstruous resonances: affect and animated pornography / Susanna Paasonen -- Reading for affects: Francis Bacon and the work of sensation / Ernst van Alphen -- Affectively effective: affect as an artistic-political strategy / Mieke Bal -- Affect is the medium / Christiane Voss -- Et in academia ego: affect and academic writing / Bernd Herzogenrath -- The Arab Spring's stranger: the affective media phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra / Christina Riley -- Affective exchange in portraiture: to follow J. Jackie Baier into the photographic dissolve / Eliza Steinbock
Summary How to Do Things with Affects' develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events and cultural practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays and animated pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media strategies and social situations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Affect (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
Affect (Psychology) in literature
Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts
Form Electronic book
Author Alphen, Ernst van, editor
Jirsa, Tomáš, 1983- editor.
ISBN 9789004397712
900439771X