The first of its kind, Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism seeks theoretically informed scholarship that examines the foundations and practice of literary criticism in relation to affect theory. This series aims to stage contemporary debates in the field, addressing topics such as...
Affect Theory - Fall 2021 Cornell University Prof. Elisha Cohn Course Description This course examines how claims about feeling ground literary analysis, with particular emphasis on the consequences of the affective turn in the early 2000s, from therapeutic criticism to the biopolitics of sentiment. H...
For the moment, let us confine this pursuit of affect to interactions with the “external bodies” of language and image matters.For while media theory offers a flourishing array of modes of affection, literary, rhetorical and composition studies have had a great deal of trouble theorizing affect...
social but always alreadyconstitutesthe ontological grounding for the very operations of any theory or critical act of response and, as a result, directly impacts how wedotheory and criticism. 2. Let us begin by focusing on two recent statements concerning the role assumed by the concept of aff...
De Man, Paul (1983).Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. 2nd ed. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P. Google Scholar De Man, Paul (1986).The Resistance to Theory. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P. ...
How can one compare the Adlerian theory to Behavioral Psychology? How is The Importance of Being Earnest a criticism of social class? While the main characters in Pride and Prejudice seem to be negatively impacted by the selfishness and ignorance of their own...
Children’s literature is rife with anthropomorphic or non-human characters that may be used as a scaffold to teach children about theory of mind (ToM) or the ways in which people think or feel about the social world. In this study, 107 typically developing U.K. school children in Years ...
One of such theories is his theory of alienation found in his work “The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts” (1844), also known as “The Paris Manuscripts”. This theory explains how a capitalist socio-economic regime alienates the worker in four various levels. Marx defines alienation as ...
Since the release of Akira in 1988, anime has been steadily gathering a worldwide fanbase. The United States has adopted the Japanese cartoons into its cul...
Affect theoryThis chapter argues that contemporary literary criticism suffers from a reflexive faith in things, conceived broadly as static objects that reflect wider political, social, and cultural practices. Literature is re-imagined here as an open-ended event that demands an immanent materialism in...