A01=John Brenkman
affect theory
art
attitude
Author_John Brenkman
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Charles Baudelaire
comparative studies
criticism
edgar allan poe
emotions
english literature
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figurative language
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gilles Deleuze
Immanuel Kant
Jorie Graham
Martin Heidegger
mood
persuasion
philosophy
poetic
poetry
rhetoric
rineke dijkstra
sigmund freud
temperament
tino sehgal
way of speaking
william shakespeare
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- ISBN 9780226673127
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2020
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect because it resides there not in speaking about feelings, but in the way of speaking itself.
Engaging a quartet of modern philosophers--Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Deleuze--Brenkman explores how they all approach the question of affect primarily through literature and art. He draws on the differences and dialogues among them, arguing that the vocation of criticism is incapable of systematicity and instead must be attuned to the singularity and plurality of literary and artistic creations. In addition, he confronts these four philosophers and their essential concepts with a wide array of authors and artists, including Pinter and Poe, Baudelaire, Jorie Graham and Li-Young Lee, Shakespeare, Tino Sehgal, and Francis Bacon. Filled with surprising insights, Mood and Trope provides a rich archive for rethinking the nature of affect and its aesthetic and rhetorical stakes.
John Brenkman is distinguished professor of English and comparative literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center and director of the US-Europe Seminar at Baruch College. He is the author of three books, most recently, The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since September 11.
