Affective mapping : melancholia and the politics of modernism / Jonathan Flatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flatley, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the screw.

James, Henry.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Souls of Black folk.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich, 1899-1951. Chevengur.

Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Melancholy in literature.

Melancholy--Social aspects.

Melancholy.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Melancholize

Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling

1. Modernism and Melancholia

2. Affective Mapping

3. Reading into Henry James: Allegories of the Will to Know in The Turn of the Screw

4 "What a Mourning": Propaganda and Loss in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk

5. Andrei Platonov's Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674263451

0674263456

9780674036963

0674036964

OCLC:

1013937978