UID:
almafu_9960117010302883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-25633-2
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1-316-23552-1
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1-316-23741-9
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1-316-25444-5
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1-316-25065-2
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1-316-25254-X
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1-107-47922-3
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1-316-15503-X
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1-316-24876-3
Content:
Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ben Marcus, Lydia Millet, and others who stage experiments in the relationship between feeling and form, Smith argues for the centrality of a counter-tradition in contemporary literature concerned with impersonal feelings: feelings that challenge the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Affective Hypothesis; Emotional Economies; Managing the Emotional Portfolio: The Case of The Corrections; A Brief History of Impersonal Feelings; Impersonal Connections: The Case of Tropic of Orange; From the Impersonal to the Ecological; The Chapters; 1 Personal and Impersonal: Two Forms of the Neoliberal Novel; The Value of Fiction; The Liberal Novel and the Neoliberal Novel; Emotional Scarcity: The Case of The Road
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Subtracting the Personal: The Case of The Book of IllusionsAssessing Literary Affects; 2 Affect and Aesthetics in 9/11 Fiction; Sentimental Innovation: The Case of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Crisis and Continuity; Uneasy Metaphors: The Case of The Exquisite; 3 Reading Like an Entrepreneur: Neoliberal Agency and Textual Systems; Neoliberal Agents; Choose Your Own Adventure: The Case of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Making the Familiar Strange: The Case of The Age of Wire and String; The Limits of Critique; 4 Ecology, Feeling, and Form in Neoliberal Literature
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The Paradox of the Environmental Bildungsroman: The Case of How the Dead DreamWonder and the Wild; Narrative Patterns and Ecological Form: The Case of The Echo Maker; Neoliberalism, Affect, Ecology; Epilogue; Notes; Introduction: The Affective Hypothesis; 1 Personal and Impersonal: Two Forms of the Neoliberal Novel; 2 Affect and Aesthetics in 9/11 Fiction; 3 Reading Like an Entrepreneur: Neoliberal Agency and Textual Systems; 4 Ecology, Feeling, and Form in Neoliberal Literature; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-316-24686-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-09522-0
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316155035
