Source : Routledge
Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, Lalita Pandit Hogan (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, Routledge, 2022
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the “affective turn” in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion.
Looking at a variety of formats, including novels, drama, film, graphic fiction, and lyric poetry, the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. The volume introduces the theoretical groundwork, covering such categories as affect theory, affective neuroscience, cognitive science, evolution, and history of emotions. It examines the range of emotions that play a special role in literature, including happiness, fear, aesthetic delight, empathy, and sympathy, as well as aspects of literature (style, narrative voice, and others) that bear on emotional response. Finally, it explores ethical and political concerns that are often intertwined with emotional response, including racism, colonialism, disability, ecology, gender, sexuality, and trauma.
This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new, interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect—in fields from neuroscience to social theory—are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Literary Feelings: Understanding Emotions
Patrick Colm Hogan and Bradley J. Irish
Part 1
Theoretical Perspectives
1. Affective Neuroscience: The Symbiosis of Scientific and Literary Knowledge
Laura Otis
2. Affect Theory
Wendy J. Truran
3. Cognitive Linguistics: A Perspective on Emotion in Literature
Zoltán Kövecses
4. Cognitive Science: Literary Emotions from Appraisal to Embodiment
Marco Caracciolo
5. Embodiment: Embodied Simulation and Emotional Engagement with Literary Characters
Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski and Vittorio Gallese
6. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender
Chantelle Ivanski, Marta M. Maslej, and Raymond A. Mar
7. Evolution: How Evolved Emotions Work in Literary Meaning
Joseph Carroll
8. The History of Emotions and Literature
Andrew Lynch
9. Philosophy, Literature, and Emotion
Noël Carroll
Part 2
Emotions of Literature
10. Aesthetic Emotions
Sibylle Baumbach
11. Paradoxes of Literary Emotion: Simulation and The Zhào Orphan
Patrick Colm Hogan
12. Sympathy and Empathy
Derek Matravers
13. Tragedy and Comedy: Emotional Tears and Trust in King Lear and Cymbeline
Lalita Pandit Hogan
Part 3
Literature and Emotion in the World
14. Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Suzanne Keen
15. Disability, “Enslavement,” and Slavery: Affective Historicism and
Fletcher and Masssinger’s A Very Woman
David Houston Wood
16. Ecology and Emotion: Feeling Narrative Environments
Alexa Weik von Mossner
17. Morals: The Ethical Gangster
Blakey Vermeule
18. Gender, Emotion, Literature: “No Woman’s Heart” in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Cora Fox
19. Race and Ethnicity
Christopher González
20. Sexuality
Tiffany Diana Ball
21. Trauma and Its Future: Re-Visiting Aesthetic Form Debates
E. Ann Kaplan
Part 4
Elements of Literary Structure and Experience
22. Authors: Cognitive Patterns and Individual Creativity
Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas
23. Character and Emotion in Fiction
Keith Oatley
24. Language, Style, and Texture
Peter Stockwell
25. Narrative and Plot: Unreliable Feelings and the Risks of Surprise
Vera Tobin
26. Readers
Richard J. Gerrig
27. Social Reception
Bradley J. Irish
28. Stories: Particular Causes and Universal Genres
Patrick Colm Hogan
Part 5
Modes of Literature
29. Drama: Feeling Out Loud in Shakespearean Apostrophe and the History of Emotions
Gail Kern Paster
30. Film: The Affective Specificity of Audiovisual Media
Jens Eder
31. Graphic Fiction: BIPOC Teen Comics
Frederick Luis Aldama
32. Lyric
John Brenkman
33. Prose Fiction
Bartosz Stopel
Part 6
Literary Examples
34. Geoffrey Chaucer
Stephanie Downes
35. William Shakespeare: Anxieties About Trust in The Tempest
Lalita Pandit Hogan
36. Jane Austen and the Emotion of Love
Keith Oatley
37. Virginia Woolf’s Development of a Sociology of Emotion
in the Composition of The Years (1937)
Emily Ridge
38. Helon Habila: Structural Helplessness and the Quest for Hope in Oil on Water
Donald R. Wehrs
39. Viet Thanh Nguyen: Navigating Anger and Empathy in The Sympathizer
Sue J. Kim
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