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Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
Jonathan Flatley
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Description for Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
Hardback. Argues that embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.
The texts at the center of Flatley’s analysis—Henry James’s Turn of the Screw, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, and Andrei Platonov’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674030787
SKU
V9780674030787
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About Jonathan Flatley
Jonathan Flatley is Associate Professor of English, Wayne State University.
Reviews for Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
Affective Mapping is one of those rare books that makes difficult theoretical propositions and counterintuitive ideas comprehensible without robbing them of any of their complexity and subtlety.
Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism Affective Mapping is not only keen, original, lucid, and persuasive: it is profoundly antidepressant.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism Affective Mapping is not only keen, original, lucid, and persuasive: it is profoundly antidepressant.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick