Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number muse65603 Control Number Identifier MdBmJHUP Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20180103104317.0 General Information 170511s2017 nyu o 00 0 eng d International Standard Book Number 9781501714245   1501714244   9781501714221 (cloth : alk. paper)   9781501714238 System Control Number (OCoLC)987615497 Cataloging Source MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP Library of Congress Call Number PN56.M54 .F54 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification Number 809/.9112 23 Main Entry - Personal Name Figlerowicz, Marta, author. Title Statement Spaces of Feeling [electronic resource] : Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature / Marta Figlerowicz Physical Description 1 online resource (pages cm) Formatted Contents Note Threshold : Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath -- Living room : Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Bedroom : Marcel Proust and James Baldwin -- Basement : Ralph Ellison -- Mirror : John Ashbery Summary, Etc. "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"-- Publisher's Web site Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Subjectivity in literature   Domestic space in literature   Affect (Psychology) in literature   Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism   Modernism (Literature) Index Term - Genre/Form Electronic books. -- local Added Entry - Corporate Name Project Muse           Physical Location           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC