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Группа авторов. Exploring Text and Emotions
Text and Emotions. Lars Sætre, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN; Patrizia Lombardo, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA; Julien Zanetta, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA
Acknowledgements
Suggested Readings
PART 1: ELABOR ATIONS. Stendhal and Hazlitt’s. Theories of Emotion. Patrizia Lombardo, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, SWISS CENTER FOR AFFECTIVE SCIENCES
Stendhal and the rationality of emotions
The arts and tenderness
Hazlitt: Sentiment against sentimentalism
Works Cited
Emotion and Forgiveness in Literature. Svend Erik Larsen, AARHUS UNIVERSITY
Example 1: Emergence of forgiveness
Example 2: The indirectness of forgiveness
Example 3: The impossibility of forgiveness
Conclusion: Cultural memory
Works Cited
Text; Action; Space; Emotion in Conrad’s Nostromo. J. Hillis Miller, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
The “Author’s Note” as an account of Nostromo’s creation
What A Personal Record Says About Nostromo’s Status as a Virtual Reality
Sulaco Described “As the poets do it”
Works Cited
Topography, Sense and Emotion: The Alterity of Textual Action in Jon Fosse. Lars Sætre, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
Repetition in Fosse: existential grounding and discursive excess
“The Boathouse” – a doubly emotionalised universe
The confinement of topographical space
Textually affective openings of the landscape
From confinement of meaning to cognitive excess
Concluding remarks
Works Cited
Spatial Affects: Body and Space in Philippe Grandrieux’s La Vie nouvelle. Jakob Ladegaard, AARHUS UNIVERSITY
An aesthetics of disorientation
Affect and emotion
Faces of affect
Spatial affects
A politics of affect?
Works Cited
Appraisal Theory and the Emotions Eleos and Phobos: A Contribution of Current Emotion Theory to the Interpretation of Greek Tragedy. Boris Grkinic, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
An introduction to appraisal theory
Eleos and Phobos reconsidered
Works Cited
A World of Emotions – Mediality in the Works of Pierre Alferi. Mads Anders Baggesgaard, AARHUS UNIVERSITY
The affects of language
Between affect and emotion
Communities of language
Works Cited
PART 11: EXPLORATIONS. Portrait of a Lady: Painting Emotion in Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie. Julien Zanetta, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA
Faces of Life: Profiles and looks to the camera
Faces of Death: Soul and supplement
Works Cited
The Economy of Emotions: Sympathy and Sentimentality in Victorian Culture. Randi Koppen, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
The sympathetic revolution
Sentimentalism on the defensive
Victorian renegotiations
Hard Times
North and South
The economy of emotions
Works Cited
Emotional Turbulence on a Floating Stage in Melville’s “Benito Cereno” Anders M. Gullestad, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
A first glimpse of Delano’s wild mood swings
Setting foot on a floating stage
Delano’s expectations
Shaving-time comes
Why emotions matter
Works Cited
Emotion, Knowledge, Alterity: Aesthetic Experience in Proust. Jorunn S. Gjerden, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
“Sur la lecture”: Loss of self and spatial experience of otherness through reading
Loving and knowing: Un amour de Swann
“Caressed by the art work that passes me by”: Aesthetic experience as contiguity
Closing remarks on emotions and knowledge
Works Cited
Emotional Mapping in Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight. Tone Selboe, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
Introducing the map of Good Morning, Midnight
The emotional impact of hotels
The power of the mask
Love and compassion
Concluding remarks
Works Cited
A Political and Emotional Experience of Aesthetic Transcendence in Marguerite Duras’ Film/ Text India Song. Ragnhild Evang Reinton, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
India Song
Recalling the past
The voices
Reenacting the past
The song
Works Cited
“Labour of Love”: The Emotional Turn in R.M. Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Anders Kristian Strand, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
i. The emotional turn – Rilke and Malte in Paris
ii. “Die gewaltigen Liebenden” – the intransitive love and the epistemology of the heart
iii. “a mosaic of the most compelling life”– Abelone, love and perception
iv. “Arbeit der Liebe” – touch and love: the hand
v. “Do the work of the heart” – Concluding remarks
Works Cited
An Absence of Character: Subjectivity and Emotions in Martin Crimp. Mads Thygesen, DANISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PLAYWRITING
Subjectivity and emotion
Fewer Emergencies
In conclusion
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Contributors
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