Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy

Dreams We Learn
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-94862-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 329 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins’ Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy. The book begins with an overview of Tomkins’ relationship to both traditional psychoanalysis and theories of human motivation and emotion, before considering tragedy via case studies of Oedipus, Hamlet, and Death of a Salesman.  Aligning Affect-Script theory with literary genre studies, this text explores what motivates fictional characters within the closed conditions of their imagined worlds and how we as an audience relate to and understand fictional characters as motivated humans.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lucas, Duncan A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Theory.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Tomkins and Literature: A Hermeneutical Model.- 3. Tragedy and the Trope of Disgust.- Part II Application.- 4. Case Study One: Sophocles’ Oedipus.- 5. Case Study Two: Shakespeare’s Hamlet.- 6. Case Study Three: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesmen.- 7. Conclusions: Dreams We Learn.

Über Autor(innen)

Duncan A. Lucas is Professor of Communications in the Department of Liberal Studies at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.