Spaces of feeling : affect and awareness in modernist literature /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Figlerowicz, Marta (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism. Affect (Psychology) in literature. Domestic space in literature. Subjectivity in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.