... overtly by affectation. This imitative model prefigures the Humean self, in which sympathy is essential to subject formation. By understanding comic practice as fundamentally a practice of depicting the psyche and by insisting on the centrality of affective processes to self making, Congreve shows us what...

...Marta Figlerowicz Lisa Mendelman , Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America , New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . Copyright © 2021 by University of Oklahoma 2021 Anton Chekhov's “The Lady with the Dog” (1899) ponders the end...

... share a common interest in horror as an affective state and an aesthetic technique. This essay argues that by grafting the affect and imagery of horror onto domestic scenes, Red Pottage , like Dracula , envisions a British society assaulted by a corrupting force that saps its vitality and health...

...Steven Shaviro This essay analyzes the Detroit writer Kathe Koja's 1991 novel The Cipher to demonstrate how her systematic omission of the conventional themes and formal elements of weird fiction results in an intensified interrogation of the genre's characteristic affects and their physical...

... organizations respond to crises with material relief, while advocacy organizations attempt to raise awareness about these crises to mobilize support for relief efforts. Operational organizations are depicted throughout the genre as mostly incapable of providing meaningful help to communities affected by war...

.... Consequently, Theodore produces Samantha discursively as a sexed being through a language of affect. This language, which is central to Theodore's letters and to our understanding of Samantha's humanity, encodes the racial and class hierarchies that the film would otherwise seem to transcend. In making visible...

... on a larger constituency, one that always includes the patient. The author's first-person ovarian cancer narrative illustrates that not having the capacity to make metaphors for one's embodied experiences can affect the timing of diagnosis; the dearth of effective public metaphors for imagining some internal...

... to be “really understood”; the early essay, which I revisit in its published form and through notes and drafts, makes an argument about difficult writing itself: that it can demand not just intellectual but affective response. Ashbery calls attention to a poetics of intimacy in Stanzas and reads its grand...

... to policy. Metaphor is shown to reflect and generate narratives related to what health is, what affects health, and what can be done to improve health. Mechanical, ecological, and other metaphors are described. The valuable metaphor of journey is highlighted. Metaphor and narrative are powerful constructs...

... a vitalist drama of political embodiment. Considered by Lawrence to be his best novel, The Plumed Serpent enables a retrospective reading of Lawrence's formal method, including the value of readerly affect in his attempts to counter the habituating forces of mass modernity. © 2013 by University of Oklahoma...

... and confers upon the father the affective power traditionally ascribed to feminine or feminized sentimental subjects. © 2013 by University of Oklahoma 2013 Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford...

... other for comparison and contrast. This study examines the evolution of transgender memoir with an eye for comparison to the coming-out story. Central questions include: How are gender transition narratives affected by transgender authors' perceived need to prove their gender identity to public...

... that camp is an inadequate framework with which to look at Puig's movie fandom precisely because camp usually brackets the very affection for film that is inherent in fandom. It argues instead for understanding Puig as a queer film fan. During almost daily childhood trips to the movies, he was at once...

... with the discourse of Victorian logic (especially the work of John Venn) and links this early sensation novel to Hardy's later output. Serial representation operates in two modes in Hardy: one material, tactile, and affective (figuring long-run processes of wear, attrition, and change); the other discrete, rational...

... with too few cases is that we will miss the suffering that happens on a vast scale. But the problem with numbers is that they actually condense and compress affective experience. Thus the realist novel demands that we recognize the impossibility of knowing large numbers in any adequate way while still...

... of Sweden's recent neoliberal turn. Social and political conditions in Sweden are ripe for the production of the cultural affect Peter Sloterdijk diagnoses as “cynical reason” or “modern cynicism” in his influential work, Critique of Cynical Reason . For Sloterdijk, the conflicted postmodern cynic affirms...

... of feeling both central and close to everywhere, a sense of nearness across distance. This essay argues that microfinance institutions such as Kiva use the poetics of microfinance to bridge bodily affect with abstract finance, thereby profiting from the further immiseration of the world's poor. Dan...

... work Guerrillas as marking a shift toward what it terms postcolonial naturalism as a way of both distancing the author’s aesthetic from the realism of a depleted romantic nationalism and anticipating, through its own codification of affect, an as yet unnamable globalization. Copyright © 2017...

... late fiction, a countercurrent the article reads in terms of Jamesian camp. Combining the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser with recent work in affect theory—specifically Sianne Ngai’s work on tone—the article offers readings of James’s The Sacred Fount (1901) and The Golden Bowl (1904) in terms...

... expectations, with a particular interest in revising their affective dimensions, the article exposes Vargas’s approach to political engagement, one that derives from the emotional work undocumented migrants undertake to narrate themselves into hostile and vitriolic discourses of belonging. undocumented...