Feelings of structure : explorations in affect / edited by Karen Engle and Yoke-Sum Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engle, Karen, 1974- editor.

Wong, Yoke-Sum, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology).

Emotions.

Physical Description:

222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queens University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Sweatsuits and the apocalypse, the demands of a sofa, a life recalled through window frames, whale watching through cancer, the serendipity of geographical names...In Feelings of Structure, these are just some of the spaces and places, memories, and experiences addressed by the authors in writings that are multilevel explorations of the tangled-up nature of feeling and structure. Inspired by Raymond Williams's classic essay, "Structures of Feeling" and influenced by the current discussion of affect studies, this collection inverts Williams's influential concept to explore the ephemerality of feeling as working in concert with the grounding forces of materiality and history. Feelings of Structure is a collection of twelve original texts that explores the weight of diverse encounters with a variety of configurations, be they institutional, spatial, historical, or fantastical. Featuring writers from a variety of disciplines, this book aims for textual evocation in subject matter and approach, with essays that encompass multiple methodologies, writing styles, and tones. Experimental in nature, Feelings of Structure balances between the need for concrete and specific observation with the ephemerality of experience."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 The Sofa's Objection: Troublesome Things and Affective Emplacements p. 12 / Kimberly Mair

2 Imagining Nighttime Detroit p. 29 / Michael Darroch

3 Industrialism and the Time of Catastrophe: A Lesson in the Anthropocene p. 48 / Craig Campbell

4 Still p. 67 / Christien Garcia

5 The Tremendous Image: Viceland TV's Abandoned Series and the Persistence of Ruin Porn p. 76 / Lee Rodney and Adam Lauder

6 Frames of Love, or Love's Perspective p. 86 / Adam Kaasa

7 Touched by a Whale p. 99 / Lesley Stern

8 Time Gets Strange: Texan Hard-Luck Stories p. 106 / Joey Russo

9 The Future Is Hybrid: Isamu Noguchi and the Mid-Century Modern p. 117 / Yoke-Sum Wong

10 Coloniality and the Carbonscape: Reflections on White Settlement and Sociogeny from inside a Cookie Factory p. 139 / Mark Jackson

11 In, around, and under Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan p. 162 / Karen Engle

12 Overwintering: On Robyn O'Neil's Apocalyptic Landscapes p. 184 / Lindsey A. Freeman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Feelings of structure.

ISBN:

0773554521

9780773554528

9780773554511

0773554513

OCLC:

1031343825