Spaces of Feeling : Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature / Marta Figlerowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Figlerowicz, Marta, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity in literature.

Domestic space in literature.

Affect (Psychology) in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that they depend on others to solve their inward affective conundrums-and that, to these other people, their feelings often do not seem mysterious at all.Spaces of Feeling features close readings of works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and Wallace Stevens. Figlerowicz points out that these poets and novelists often place their protagonists in domestic spaces-such as bedrooms, living rooms, and basements-in which their cognitive dependence on other characters inhabiting these spaces becomes clear. Figlerowicz highlights the diversity of aesthetic and sociopolitical contexts in which these affective dependencies become central to these authors' representations of selfhood. By setting these novels and poems in conversation with the work of contemporary theorists, she illuminates pressing and unanswered questions about subjectivity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Threshold / Stevens, Wallace / Plath, Sylvia

Chapter 2. Living Room / Woolf, Virginia / Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Chapter 3. Bedroom / Proust, Marcel / Baldwin, James

Chapter 4. Basement / Ellison, Ralph

Chapter 5. Mirror / Ashbery, John

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781501714245

1501714244

OCLC:

987615497