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...David H. Fleming Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema: Globalization on Speed . By Li David Leiwei . New York : Routledge , 2016 . 229 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 BOOK REVIEWS / 351 Economy...

...Frederick Luis Aldama The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. By Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 302 p. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanities. By Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2003. 244 p...

...Elin Diamond Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America. By Linda Kintz. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. 313 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/179...

... for their similarities rather than their differences. Boccaccio and Christine are both profoundly concerned with marital affection, an emotion in a state of flux in late-medieval Europe. Through narrative, both authors attempt to theorize how this emotion should be experienced and performed by the virtuous wife. In De...

...Sif Rikhardsdottir This article considers how we can discuss emotions (a human phenomenon) within literature (a discursive construction). The article poses the question of where we can locate this perceived literary emotionality in medieval works and considers the role of the reader in constructing...

...MICHELLE L. ZERBA Doubt is intrinsic to our situation as beings immersed in a world that connects us to people at the same time that it renders impossible the certainty of knowing their minds. It has both an affective side that is linked with such kindred emotions as fear, anxiety, and suspicion...

... and are subsequently turned into national narratives. According to Narayan, the representation of emotions becomes a defining trait in narratives of trauma and survival, since the inherent definition of humanity that emerges in these narratives relies on regimes of emotionality. The author shows how enlightened racial...

... the dead. It is an emotive experience that, in repressed form, manifests first as identification with the dead. The essay thus documents the complex “working-through” by which, in response to their fathers' deaths, two “tardy sons” finally arrive at a place of self-identification, a site from which...

... to develop literary research in company with our developing scientific understanding of human motives, emotions, identity, social interactions, and forms of cognition. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 biocultural theory gene-culture coevolution Works Cited Abrams Meyer H. Doing...

...Mikhal Dekel This essay argues that in emotionally and politically fraught terrains tragic literature may offer an embodied, affective critique of the existing political order that is more effective than theoretical-didactic critiques. As a form that makes room for conflict, violence, and desire...

... into the cultural landscape of this enormously significant moment in the history of the West. To do so, it examines three major works of what is termed here the immediate postwar . These works are fundamentally dissimilar and yet, it is argued, share an emotional disposition. As shown, all three works exhibit...

.... This tidalectical aesthetic, in which there is no resolving synthesis but rather a series of interconnected and overlapping lived experiences and emotional struggles produced by multiple authors, may be a better way of representing contemporary Indian Ocean narratives that circles back to issues of migration...

... Protestant ideals of sentimental readerly mobilization encountered already established Chinese theories of emotive reading, the argument sheds new light on a transnational theory of readership that was yoked to the Chinese modern project of nation building. The essay demonstrates this argument by charting...

... that is written above the score and the emotions that exceed it. The feeling that is supposed to give the story its rhythm and tempo never quite contains the affects it means to structure. In this very space of impossibility—the gap between the story’s emotionally violent con- tent and the tone-deafness...

..., as an emotional phenomenon, thus drawing on and contributing to affect studies. The result is a wealth of insights. Her central historical claim serves as an etiology of ambiguous aggression. Niklas Luhmann taught us that love, as we know it, was forged by the European literature of the long eighteenth...

... of the imprisoned British in strongly emotional language. The survivors gave graphic accounts of their misery with the twin goal of persuading their readers about the brutality of the Indians as well as of British entitlement following the Black Hole event that threatened British power in India. Chief among...

... [. . .] (ii) The second is strong and inspired emotion. (These two sources are for the most part natural, the remaining three involve art.) (iii) Certain kinds of figures. (These may be divided into figures of thought and figures of speech.) (iv) Noble diction. This has as subdivisions choice of words...

..., Longinus’s five sources of sublimity: power, strong emotion, certain kinds of figures, noble diction, and dignified and elevated word arrangement. Doran argues that the Longinian sublime, or hypsos, is a mental disposition of high-mindedness. He also high- lights the way in which the sublime presents...

... dramatizes a process of aesthetic, emotional, and finally ontological self-abandonment.6 The critique of lyric absorption that is built into the rape narrative rests on the poem’s interrogation of a central feature of enargeia: the conflation of signifier and signified in an emotionally charged image...

... for national projects. It journeys through the emotional and sensorial experience that kept Romanticism alive in Colombia even in the early twentieth century. It explores how the painful years of the civil war transformed the nation’s sensitivities to braid gore and the smell of death with Romanticism...