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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42451-6 — Affect and Literature Edited by Alex Houen Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42451-6 — Affect and Literature Edited by Alex Houen Index More Information Index Adorno, Theodor happening and haphazardness in relation affect in his writing, 104 to, 20 culture industry, on, 104, 106 knowledge distinguished, 159 disgust, on, 108, 113 persistence of, 309 emotion and art in relation, 268 postcolonial. See postcolonial affect English translation of his writing, 104, 107, 109 reader’s affective stance, 18, 20, 22 false pleasure, on, 108 scope of current study, 23 ‘fun,’ use of word, 107 secondary affect. See secondary affect Georg Lukács, and, 113 sensation of, 176 happiness, on, 109 social aspect of, 19 Karl Marx, on, 111 space and time in relation to, 2, 3, 14 manufacture of fun, on, 106 subaltern. See subaltern affect need, on, 104 theories of, 2 universal history, on, 105 theory. See affect theory vision of emancipated humanity, 111, 113 universalism of, 33 aesthetics universalization by ‘psy’ disciplines, 175 affect and, 9, 17, 19 affect theory affect theory and, 49–51 applications. See CGI effects; crisis fiction; crying as aesthetic response, 62–63 Descartes, René; digital media; definition of, 51–52 environmental affect; War on Terror knowledge and, 50, 52 branches of, 250 laughter and, 232 critical affect studies, 85 sympathy and, 62 developments in. See antihumanism; Davis, affect Bette; early modern writing; Irish novels; affective life. See affective life laughter; postcolonial affect; subaltern basic trio of affects (desire, joy, and affect sadness), 67 early modern writing, and. See early modern becoming and being in relation to, 18 writing body and mind in relation to, 2, 3, 5, 16, Enlightenment aesthetics, and, 49, 52 160 Leys’s ‘new paradigm’ of, 159, 173 Cartesian. See Descartes, René literature and, 250 conception of, 19 neuroscience and, 159 content and form in relation to, 5, 17 origins of. See Adorno, Theodor; Bergson, definition of, 321 Henri; early modern writing; German emotion distinguished, 119, 159, 161, 213, Enlightenment; Lacan, Jacques; Marx, Karl; 309, 310 Nietzsche, Friedrich; Practical Criticism; environmental affect. See environmental affect queer theory; secondary affect; Spinoza, evanescent affect. See Lacan, Jacques Baruch feeling distinguished, 119, 222 queer theory and, 135–40 feelings and ideas in relation to, 5, 9, 11, science and, 159, 164 16 spread across disciplines, 2 444 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42451-6 — Affect and Literature Edited by Alex Houen Index More Information Index 445 affection. See also disaffection anxiety affect and, 127 affect and, 118, 124 heteroaffection, 307 shock and, 42 intensity of, 166 Aristotle, 39–42, 49, 118, 216 self, of, 430 art affections (affectio, affectus), 5, 67, 121, 165, affect and, 312 216, 393 emotion and, 268 affective life laughter and, 234 affect theory and, 49 religion and, 269 affective mapping and, 12 ascetic ideal, Nietzsche’s theory of, 74 bodily sensation and, 5 astonishment, wonder and, 411, 417 ecological destruction and, 349 awe imaginary life and, 2 spectatorship and, 421 language and, 7 wonder and, 203 ‘social aesthetics’ of, 50 subaltern affect and, 327 Baldwin, James, 284, 287 subjective experience, of, 206 Barrett, Lisa Feldman, 175 affective ranges, 6, 22 Barry, Kevin, 252, 253–56 ‘affective turn’ in literary studies, 3, 7, Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 50, 51–52 11 Beatlebone (novel, Kevin Barry), 252, 253–56 affectus, translation of, 9, 127 becoming and being aftermath-images, 414–17 affect in relation to, 18 Agrabah poll and affective fiction, 381–82 Deleuze’s theory of becoming, 18, 164 alienation in crisis fiction, 355 Benjamin, Walter, 241, 273 allegory and symbol in relation, 273 Bergson, Henri, 76–80 amnesia. See fugue affect and life in work of, 66, 76 amodality. See digital media creative evolution, theory of, 78–79 anger. See also rage Descartes and, 430 affective range of, 6 instinct, intelligence, and intuition, Korean concept of Han, 175, 180–86 distinction between, 78 anguish, affective range of, 6, 22 intuitive method of philosophy, 66, 76 antihumanism, 267–81 joy, theory of, 66, 76 ‘aboutness’ of, 268 laughter, theory of, 233 allegory and symbol in relation, 273 love, theory of, 76 Benjamin (Walter), 273 morality, theory of, 79–80 critical antihumanism, 273–78 society, theory of, 79–80 de Man, 276 sympathetic intuition, theory of, 76, 77 Eliot (T. S.), 271 bewilderment, concept of in Practical Criticism, environmentalism and, 267 85, 92 feeling and, 267 blockbuster films. See CGI effects Hulme (T. E.), 270 body and mind in relation to affect, 2, 3, 5, 16, humanity and nature in relation, 276 160, 173, 321 Marxism and, 278–81 brain research. See neuroscience modernist antihumanism, 269–73 bravery on the battlefield, poetic exhortations Nietzsche, 270 to, 34 philosophy and, 267 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 234 poetic engagement with capitalism, 279 Burroughs, William S., 13 post-structuralism and, 267 prophetic rhetoric and tone of, 271 camp. See queer theory queer theory and, 267 capitalism racial politics and, 267 imperialism and, 322 religion and, 267, 269 poetic engagement with, 279 sources of, 267 postmodernity and late capitalism, 310 technology and, 267 subaltern affect and, 318 tone and, 268 Cartesian philosophy. See Descartes, René © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42451-6 — Affect and Literature Edited by Alex Houen Index More Information 446 Index CGI effects melodrama, and, 285, 291–97 aftermath-images, 414–17 popularity with drag queens, 285 astonishment, experience of, 408 racialized critiques of, 284, 287, 288, 296 consumer culture and, 420–22 spectatorship and, 284, 289 exhilaration, affect of, 410, 417–20 transformation of identity, 294 Hobbit, The: Battle of the Five Armies, 412, 417 Davy, Humphry, 229 realism and, 409 de Man, Paul, 276 slow motion, 411 death ‘special affects,’ concept of, 408 fear of, 34–36 stunning, affect of, 410, 417–20 freedom from fear of, 42 suspension-images, 411–14 terror and, 121 300, 414, 417 debt, guilt and, 72 wonder, experience of, 408 Deleuze, Gilles cinema. See CGI effects; Davis, Bette affect/emotion distinction, 356 Classical philosophy. See Greco-Roman poetry becoming, theory of, 18, 164 and philosophy cinematic affects, on, 418 cognition. See knowledge Descartes and, 426, 430, 433, 438 colonialism. See postcolonial affect; subaltern Lacanian psychoanalysis, and, 128 affect Massumi’s affect theory, and, 5, 159, 160, comedy 164–68 drama and, 233 queer theory, and, 144 experience of, 241 delight, horror and, 10 feeling and, 237 Derrida, Jacques, 14, 307, 437, 441 laughter and, 232 Descartes, René, 425–42 communications. See cinema and digital media Bergson’s critique, 430 compassion Cartesian affect, 425 affective response of, 263 concept of passion, 215 feeling and, 258 Damasio’s critique, 425, 431 conatus, Spinoza’s theory of, 67 Deleuze and Guattari’s critique, 426, 430, confidence, concept of in Practical Criticism, 92 433, 438 consumer culture, CGI effects and, 420–22 Derrida’s critique, 437, 441 content and form in relation to affect, 5, 17 doubt, on, 441 courage on the battlefield, poetic exhortations emotion, on, 436 to, 34 Heidegger’s critique, 433, 439, 440 creative evolution, Bergson’s theory of, 78–79 Irigaray’s critique, 440 Crimp, Douglas, 151 Manning’s (Erin) critique, 428 crisis fiction, 355–69 Massumi’s critique, 429, 431, 432 affect theory and, 355 Protevi’s critique, 432 alienation in, 355 Sartre, and, 123 critical affect studies, 85 sensation, on, 435, 439 critical antihumanism, 273–78 Spinoza and, 426 criticism. See Practical Criticism translation of, 434 crying as aesthetic response, 62 Varela’s critique, 433 cultural and linguistic translation in relation, desert romances and War on Terror, 373 25, 307 desire cultural contexts of diseases, 180 affect of, 67 cultural definition of emotion, 33 lust and, 178 cultural difference and postcolonial affect, 306 detachment, laughter as committed, 243 ‘cut-up’ writing, 13 difference, feeling of, 140 difference, queer feeling of, 133–35 Damasio, Antonio, 172–73, 425, 431 digital media, 390–405 Davis, Bette, 284–97 affect and, 392, 400–1 camp, and, 285–91 amodal affect, 401–5 gay icon, as, 284 amodality of, 390, 392–400 glamour and mundanity in relation, 293 modality of, 391–92 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42451-6 — Affect and Literature Edited by Alex Houen Index More Information Index 447 networked media and, 390 translation in, 224 shifting modality of, 390 education by use of disgust, 109 disaffection Eliot, T. S. crisis fiction, and, 355–69 anticapitalism, 271 expression of, 330, 331 antihumanism, 271 sedition and, 324 French translation, 124 diseases, cultural contexts of, 180 Lacan, and, 124 disgust laughter, on, 242 affective range of, 6 literary criticism, 86, 87 category of, 104 poetry and emotion, on, 12 education by use of, 109 prophetic rhetoric, 271 enjoyment and, 147 emotion excitement and, 147 affect and, 3, 12, 15, 50, 68, 121, 176, experience of, 36 321 knowledge and, 106 affect distinguished, 4, 119, 159, 161, 213, 309, need and, 105 310, 356 physical and moral disgust in relation, 40 alienation and, 355 pleasure and, 35, 108, 109 art in relation, 268 satire and, 100, 106 basic states of, 33 self-disgust, 179 causes of, 198–99 disinterest. See interest cultural definition of, 33 displeasure. See pleasure eliciting and representation of emotion dissmell, affective range of, 6 distinguished, 251 distress, affective range of, 6, 22 ‘emotional transportation’ concept, 191–94, doubt and Cartesian affect, 441 196, 204 drag queens, Bette Davis and, 285 feeling distinguished, 119, 172, 176 drama fiction-reading and, 190 comedy and, 233 Imagination Theory and, 199–204 dramatic affect in early modern writing, 219 knowledge and, 68 German Enlightenment, 58 literary expression of, 251 Greco-Roman.
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