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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

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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

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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

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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. See Greco-Roman poetry and modernism and, 3 philosophy poetry and, 12 melodrama. See melodrama Practical Criticism and, 249 visual effect of, 40 Pretence Theory and, 196–98 dreams and affect in Freudian psychoanalysis, 120 reason and, 194–96, 200, 205 Dubos, Jean-Baptiste, 49, 54, 55–57 sensation and, 18 Stoic control of, 33 early modern writing, 213–26 translation of states of, 33 affect and feeling distinguished, 222 empathy affect and feeling in relation, 223 causes of, 198–99 affect/emotion distinction, and, 213 fiction-reading and, 190, 192 applicability of modern affect theory to, 217 non-fiction reading and, 192 beginnings of modern affect theory in, 217 enjoyment. See also joy cognitive experience of passion, 214 affective range of, 6, 22 Descartes’ concept of passion, 215 disgust and, 147 dramatic affect, 219 excitement and, 147 feeling in, 220 humiliation and, 147 materialist philosophy, growth of, 217 joy and, 136 modern usage of feeling distinguished, 221 shame and, 104, 137, 140 Montaigne, 219 Enlightenment. See German Enlightenment passion defined, 214 environmental affect, 337–52 passions, about, 213 antihumanism and, 267 rhetorical communication of passion, 218 depressive ecopoetics, 345–52 Shakespeare, 224 ecopoetics, 338 Spenser, 221 materialism and, 337 Spinoza’s concept of affections (affectus), 216 object-relations theory and, 341–45

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epistemology. See knowledge literary fiction, empathetic response to, 193 evanescent affect. See Lacan, Jacques Paradox of Fiction, 195, 196, 198, 204–6 evolution, Bergson’s theory of creative evolution, Paradox of Tragedy, 204 78–79 philosophical studies of, 190 excitement. See also interest Plato’s theory of emotion and reason, 194 affective range of, 6, 22 popular fiction, empathetic response to, 193 celebration of, 263 Pretence Theory, 196–98 CGI effects and, 408 psychological approaches, 190, 194, 205 disgust and, 147 psychological research on, 194 enjoyment and, 147 simulation, process of, 193 humiliation and, 147 foreclosure, concept of, 320 interest and, 136 form passion and, 54, 56 affective form in postcolonial fiction, 300–14 exhaustion, 33, 71 content and form in relation to affect, 5, 17 exhilaration innovation in Irish novels. See Irish novels affect of, 410 Forna, Aminatta, 300, 305, 313 stunning affect, and, 417–20 freedom, Spinoza’s theory of, 69 expression Freud, Sigmund emotion, of, 251 affect and dreams, on, 120 affect and repression, on, 119 faculties, Kant’s theory of, 393 affects, emotions and feelings false pleasure, 108, 109 distinguished, 119 Fanon, Frantz, 321, 322 ambivalence of effect, 128 fear. See also terror English translation, 120 affective range of, 6 French translation, 320 death, of, 34–36 influence on Jacques Lacan, 119, 121, fear-related affects in Greco-Roman 127 antiquity. See Greco-Roman poetry and laughter, theory of, 233 philosophy fugue freedom from, 42 condition of, 304 horror and, 15 postcolonial affect, and, 305 imagination and, 15 fun pity and, 55, 57 etymology of, 107 feeling. See also emotion; structures of feeling false pleasure, as, 108 affect and, 5, 9, 11, 16, 141, 223, 321 ‘manufacture’ of, 106 affect distinguished, 119, 222 antihumanism and, 267 Gatens, Moira, 159–62 compassion and, 258 gay. See queer theory early modern and modern usages geographical determinants of hunger and distinguished, 221 poverty, 325 emotion distinguished, 119, 172, 176 German Enlightenment, 49–63 melodrama and, 291–97 aesthetic judgement, 52 Practical Criticism and, 7 aesthetics and affect theory, 49–51 queer difference, of, 133–35, 140 Baumgarten, 50, 51–52 translation of, 220 conceptualization of aesthetics, 50, 51–52 feminism correspondence (exchange) on tragedy, melodrama as feminine survival strategy, 292 54, 57 queer theory and, 143, 148 crying as aesthetic response, 62–63 fiction-reading, 190–206 Kant. See Kant, Immanuel causes of emotion and empathy, 198–99 Lessing, 49, 54, 57–62, 63 emotion and reason in relation, 200, 205 Mendelssohn (Moses), 54, 60 ‘emotional transportation’ concept, 191–94, Nicolai, 49, 54–55, 57, 63 196, 204 passion, 54–57 empathetic responses in, 192 secondary affect, theory of, 50, 59, 63 Imagination Theory, 199–204 sympathy and aesthetics, 62

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Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, A (novel, Eimear love and, 215 McBride), 252, 259–63 materialist philosophy, and, 274 Goldsmiths literary prize winners, 251 object-relations theory, and, 341 Gorgias, 39 queer theory, and, 143 Greco-Roman poetry and philosophy, 33–43 sadness and, 68 Aristotle, 39–42, 49, 118, 216 Hatred of Poetry, The (novel, Ben Lerner), concept of affect, and, 33 363 courage on the battlefield, poetic exhortations hearts and minds missions in War on Terror, to, 34 378–79 fear of death, 34–36 Heidegger, Martin fear-related poetic affects, 34 Descartes and, 433, 439, 440 freedom from fear, 42 Sartre and, 123 Gorgias, 39 heteroaffection, 307 Homer, 35, 36 Hobbit, The: Battle of the Five Armies (film), Lucretius, 42–43 412, 417 philosophical responses to fear, 36–39 Hocquenghem, Guy, 134, 140–46, Plato, 36 150 Socrates, 37 English translation, 140 Stoic control of emotions, 33 Homer, 35, 36 tragedy and fear, 39–42 homosexuality. See queer theory Tyrtaeus of Sparta, 36, 39, 42 horror Greece, Ancient. See Greco-Roman poetry and definition of, 40 philosophy delight and, 10 Green, André, 117 fear and, 15 Guattari, Felix Hulme, T. E., 269 affect and intensity in relation, 164–68 human nature, Spinoza’s theory of, 69 Descartes and, 426, 430, 433, 438 humanism. See antihumanism; modernism Massumi’s affect theory, and, 5, 159, 160, humanity and nature in relation, 276 164–68 humans as social beings, 68 queer theory, and, 144 humiliation. See also shame guilt affective range of, 6 debt and, 72 enjoyment and, 147 object-relations theory, and, 342 excitement and, 147 sin and, 74, 75 shame and, 136 humour. See laughter Hacking, Ian, 304 Han (Korean concept of anger), 175, 180–86 ideas and affect, 5, 9, 11, 16 Han Kang, 175, 181, 183 identity haphazardness, affect and, 20 affect and, 8 happening, affect and, 20 transformation of, 8 happiness. See also pleasure imagination Adorno’s theory of, 109 affect and, 1, 2, 12, 15 affect and, 20 faculty of, 393 desert romances, in, 373 fear and, 15 expression of, 202 Imagination Theory, 199–204 liberalism and, 377, 380 knowledge and, 68 performative happiness or unhappiness, 97 terror and, 199, 201 pursuit of, 378, 380 imperialism and capitalism, 322 ressentiment and, 73 India security and, 381, 385 capitalism, 318 unhappy marriage, imagery of, 376 debt and labour exploitation, 325 war and, 379 hunger and poverty, 325 hatred subaltern affect, 317–31 experience of, 36 instinct, intelligence and intuition distinguished Islamophobia and, 381 from, 78

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intelligence, instinct and intuition distinguished knowledge from, 78 aesthetics and, 50, 52 intensity affect and, 3, 4, 6, 11, 15, 195 affect and, 164 affect distinguished, 159 affection, of, 166 cognitve experience of passion, 214 concept of, 163, 168, 309 disgust and, 106 Deleuze’s concept of, 164 emotion and, 68 Massumi’s concept of, 3, 163, 168–72, 309 imagination and, 68 Spinoza’s concept of, 165 interest and, 195 interest. See also excitement intuition and, 70 affective range of, 6, 22 reason and, 68 Bergson and, 78 shock and recognition, 95 disinterest and, 104 Kolin, Philip, 293 excitement and, 136 Korean language and literature Kant and, 53 concept of anger (Han), 175, 180–86 knowledge and, 195 postcolonial affect, 182 Nietzsche and, 74 sexual violence, 179 reading and, 92, 94 shamanism and, 182 Richards and, 92, 96 universalization of affect in relation to, 175, 179 self-interest, 303, 306 shame and, 104, 137, 140 Lacan, Jacques, 116–31 tone and, 96 affect and affection, 127 intuition affect theory, 116 instinct and intelligence distinguished anxiety, on, 118, 124 from, 78 Deleuze’s critique, 128 joy and, 70 Eliot (T. S.), and, 124 knowledge and, 70 foreclosure, concept of, 320 sympathetic intuition, Bergson’s theory of, Freud’sinfluence, 119, 121, 127 76, 77 Green’s (André) critique, 117 Irigaray, Luce, 440 Heidegger, and, 124 Irish novels, 249–64 See also Barry, Kevin; language and affect, 117 McBride, Eimear; McCormack, Mike Mansfield (Katherine), and, 128 emotional engagement with, 263–64 psychoanalytic theory, 116 formal innovation in, 249 Roudinesco’s biography, 127 Goldsmiths literary prize winners, 252 Sartre’sinfluence, 121 modernism and affect in, 249, 252 shame, on, 125 Islamophobia. See War on Terror signification theory, 121 Soler’s (Colette) critique, 116 Jameson, Fredric, 4, 310 soul as seat of affects, on, 126 joy. See also enjoyment Spinoza’sinfluence, 127 affect of, 67 language affective range of, 6, 22 affect and, 2, 3, 4, 7, 16, 117, 175 enjoyment and, 136 non-English languages, 175–86 intuition and, 70 representation of subaltern histories, 321 pleasure and, 80 laughter, 229–44 theories of, 66, 76 aesthetics of, 232 affect and, 231 Kant, Immanuel, 52–54 anarchism of, 242 aesthetics, theory of, 50, 52, 104 art and, 234 laughter, on, 232 Bergson’s theory of, 233 modality, on, 393 committed detachment, as, 243 perpetual peace, concept of, 112 Eliot (T. S.), and, 242 Keats, John, 230 Freud’s theory of, 233 Kennedy, Adrienne, 291 Keats and, 230 Klein, Melanie, 341 language and, 229

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‘laughable,’ definition of, 240 satire and disgust in relation, 100, 106 Lear (Edward) and, 240 satire, use of, 100, 104 mirth and, 10 style of his writing, 100 nitrous oxide inhalation, 229 value, concept of, 268 philosophy and, 241 Marxism, 100–13 poetry and, 230, 234 antihumanism and, 278–81 Romanticism and, 229, 237 feeling and, 101 See also Adorno, Theodor; Tennyson and, 237 Marx, Karl theories of, 231 imperialism, theories of, 322 Lawrence, T. E., 373 Massumi, Brian, 159–73 Lear, Edward, 240 affect and emotion distinguished, 161, 213, 309 Leaving the Atocha Station (novel, Ben Lerner), affect and power, 161 355, 362 affect theory, 159 Lerner, Ben, 355, 362 Deleuze and, 5, 159, 160, 164–68 lesbianism. See queer theory Descartes and, 429, 431, 432 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 49, 54, 57–62, 63 embodied affect, on, 314 Leys, Ruth, 3, 4, 6, 138, 159, 161, 162–64, 169, Gatens’s critique, 159–62 171, 172 ‘intensity,’ concept of, 3, 163, 168–72, 309 liberalism, happiness and, 377, 380 Leys’s critique, 162–64, 172 life persistence of affect, on, 309 affective life. See affective life Spinoza’sinfluence, 159, 160 Bergson’s theory of, 66, 76 timing of affect, 160 misery, of, 326 Tomkins’s ‘Basic Emotions paradigm,’ Nietzsche’s theory of, 66, 71 and, 163 Spinoza’s theory of, 66, 67 vocabulary of affect, on, 300 literary criticism. See Practical Criticism materialist philosophy literature. See also comedy; crisis fiction; drama; environmental affect and, 337 early modern writing; fiction-reading; Irish growth of, 217 novels; poetry; reading; tragedy McBride, Eimear, 252, 259–63 affect in Victorian realistic fiction, 310 McCarthy, Tom, 355, 357 affect theory applied to, 250 McCormack, Mike, 252, 256–59 desert romances and War on Terror, 373 meaning eliciting and representation of emotion affect and, 159, 161, distinguished, 251 163 expression of emotion, 251 thought, and, 173 Goldsmiths literary prize winners, 251 understanding and, 161 particular affects and genres in relation, 10 media. See digital media philosophy of affect in relation, 249 melodrama Lives of Others, The (novel, Neel Mukherjee), 326 Bette Davis and, 285 love camp distinguished, 292 being in love, 16 feeling and, 291–97 Bergson’s theory of, 76 glamour and mundanity in relation, 293 declaration of, 8, 17 minoritarian survival strategy, as, 292 hatred and, 215 memory love stories (desert romances). See literature affect, and, 150–54, 430 Lucretius, 42–43 matter and, 76–80 Lukács, Georg, 113 Memory of Love, The (novel, Aminatta lust, desire and, 178 Forna), 300 Mendelssohn, Moses, 59–62 Manning, Erin, 428 mind and body in relation to affect, 2, 3, 5, 16, Mansfield, Katherine, 128 160, 173, 321 Marx, Karl minoritarian survival. See queer theory; racial affect in his writing, 100, 101, 109, 110 politics English translation of Capital, 100 mirth, laughter and, 10 enjoyment of his writing, 100 modality. See digital media

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modernism object-relations theory, 340, 341–45 affect in Irish novels. See Irish novels Oliver, Kelly, 321 anticapitalism and, 271 antihumanism and, 269–73 pain Eliot (T. S.), 271 pleasure and, 216, 229, 250 emotion and, 3 terror and, 10 Hulme (T. E.), 269 Paradox of Fiction, 195, 196, 198, 204–6 New Criticism and, 249 Paradox of Tragedy, 204 prophetic rhetoric in, 271 paranoia, affect and, 22 modernity and postcolonial affect, 303 Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 146 Montaigne, Michel de, 219 passion mood definition of, 214 affect and, 141 Descartes’ concept of, 215 mode, as, 391 early modern writing about, 213 relation of, 434 German Enlightenment, and, 54–57 moral and physical disgust in relation, 40 rhetorical communication of, 218 morality translation of, 58 Bergson’s theory of, 79–80 perpetual peace, Kant’s concept of, 112 morality of custom, Nietzsche’s theory of, philosophy 72 antihumanism and, 267 mortality. See death fiction-reading and, 190 Mukherjee, Neel, 326 German Enlightenment. See German Muñoz, José, 288, 292 Enlightenment Greco-Roman. See Greco-Roman poetry and nature philosophy environmental affect. See environmental affect literature and affect in relation, 249 humanity in relation, 276 materialist. See materialist philosophy networked media. See digital media philosophical responses to fear, 36–39 neuroscience physical and moral disgust in relation, 40 affect theory and, 159, 162 physiologically-induced states of emotion, 33 physiologically-induced states of emotion, pity 33 fear and, 55, 57 New Criticism. See Practical Criticism imagination theory and, 199 New Sincerity literature, 358, 367 tragedy and, 41 Ngai, Sianne, 18, 20, 49, 91, 96, 268, 363 valuing of, 71 Nicolai, Friedrich, 49, 54–55, 57, 63 Plato, 36–39, 42, 194, 392 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 71–76 pleasure. See also happiness affect and life in work of, 66, 71 ascetic ideal and, 75 antihumanism, 270 disgust and, 35, 108, 109 ascetic ideal, theory of, 74 displeasure and, 52 Benjamin (Walter) and, 275 false pleasure, 108, 109 genealogical method of philosophy, 66, 71 joy and, 80 human insignificance, on, 275 pain and, 216, 229, 250 joy, theory of, sensible pleasure, 55 laughter, on, 241 spectatorship and, 284, 295 metaphor, on, 270 poetry morality of custom, theory of, 72 antihumanism and, 279 prophetic rhetoric, 270 capitalism and, 279 ressentiment, theory of, 73 ecopoetics, 338 sickness and suffering, theory of, 74 emotion and, 12 will-to-power, theory of, 71 exhortations to bravery on the battlefield, non-English languages. See translation 34 ‘nourishment and comfort’,Sedgwick’snotion fear-related affects in Greco-Roman poetry of, 348 and philosophy. See Greco-Roman poetry novels. See Irish novels; literature and philosophy

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laughter. See laughter queer theory, 133–54 See also Davis, Bette; poetic engagement between antihumanism melodrama and capitalism, 279 affect theory and, 135–40, 151 sensation, and, 18 affective response to Pasolini’s murder, 146 tragic poetry, fear and, 39–42 antihumanism and, 267 political affect, 432 Bette Davis as gay icon, 284 postcolonial affect. See also subaltern affect camp and melodrama distinguished, 292 cultural difference and, 306 camp disidentification as minoritarian survival debt and labour exploitation in relation, 325 strategy, 288 geographical determinants of hunger and camp identification, 285–91 poverty, 325 drag queens, Bette Davis and, 285 imperialism and capitalism in relation, 322 feeling of difference, affect and, 133–35, 140 Korean language and literature, 182 feminism and, 143, 148 mode of signification and identification, as, 300 heteroaffection, 307 modernity and, 303 Hocquenghem, 134, 140–46, 150 postcolonial fiction, in, 300–14 memory and affect, 150–54 psychiatry and, 303 Sedgwick, 135, 288 translation of, 175–86 sexual and social violence, 146–50 trauma and, 302, 312 shame, on, 137 violence and colonialism in relation, 324 Sontag, 285 postmodernity and late capitalism, 310 ‘State homosexual,’ figure of, 148 post-structuralism, antihumanism and, 267 Tomkins, 137 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). See trauma power racial politics Spinoza’s theory of, 67 antihumanism and, 267 will-to-power, Nietzsche’s theory of, 71 melodrama as minoritarian survival Practical Criticism strategy, 292 anti-sentimentality, 83–97 racialized critiques of Bette Davis, 284, 287, bewilderment, concept of, 85, 92 288, 296 confidence, concept of, 92 Radford, Colin, 195 documentary method, 92 rage. See also anger emotion and, 249 affective range of, 6 feeling and, 7 experience of, 1, 198, 331 method of close reading, as, 93, 96, 97 rape protocolists, 88 Korean language and literature, 148 protocols, 84, 92, 95 queer theory, 148 ‘pseudo-statement,’ concept of, 85, 92 reader’s affective stance, 18, 20, 22 tone, 91, 92, 94, 96 reading Pretence Theory, 196–98 close reading concept in Practical Criticism, prophetic rhetoric, 270 93, 96, 97 Protevi, John, 432 emotional and empathetic response to non- psychiatry fiction, 192 fugue, condition of, 304 fiction. See fiction-reading postcolonial affect and, 303 reason universalization of affect, 175, 180 emotion and, 194–96, 200, 205 psychoanalysis. See also Freud, Sigmund; Lacan, faculty of, 393 Jacques knowledge and, 68 universalization of affect, 175, 180 religion psychological research on emotion, 15 antihumanism and, 267, 269 psychology art and, 269 affect theory, 159, 162 Remainder (novel, Tom McCarthy), 355, 357 cultural contexts of diseases, 180 ressentiment, Nietzsche’s theory of, 73 fiction-reading and, 190, 194, 205 rhetoric universalization of affect, 175 communication of passion, 218 PTSD. See trauma modernist prophetic rhetoric, 270

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Richards, I. A., 7, 83–97 See also Practical Shakespeare, William, 224 Criticism shame. See also humiliation romance novels. See literature affective range of, 6, 136 Romantic critique of allegory and symbol, 273 enjoyment and, 104, 137, 140 Romanticism and laughter, 229, 237 experience of, 137 Rome, Ancient. See Greco-Roman poetry and humiliation and, 136 philosophy interest and, 104, 137, 140 Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 127 Lacanian psychoanalysis, 125 queer theory, 137 sadness translation of, 36 affect of, 67 sharia law, Islamophobic discourses on, 382–86 crying as aesthetic response to art, 62–63 shock hatred and, 68 anxiety and, 42 Sartre, Jean-Paul cognition and, 95 Descartes, and, 123 stunning affect, and, 419 Heidegger, and, 123 trauma and, 302, 313 Jacques Lacan, and, 121 sickness and suffering, Nietzsche’s theory of, 74 signiﬁcation theory, 121 simulation process in ﬁction-reading, 193 satire, Marx on. See Marx, Karl sin, guilt and, 74, 75 science sincerity affect theory and, 159, 164 camp and, 285 antihumanism and, 267 determination of, 97 laughter and, 229 melodrama and, 291–97 secondary affect. See also German Enlightenment New Sincerity literature, 358, 367 aesthetics and affect theory, 49–51 smell. See dissmell domain of, 63 ‘social aesthetics’ of affective life, 50 theory of, 50, 59 social aspect of affect, 19 security and happiness, 381, 385 social violence in queer theory, 148 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky society affect theory, 3, 6, 134 Bergson’s theory of, 79–80 camp, on, 288 Nietzsche’s theory of, 71 critical theory, 22 Socrates, 37 ‘nourishment and comfort’, notion of, 348 Solar Bones (novel, Mike McCormack), 252, object-relations theory, 340 256–59 shame, on, 135 Soler, Colette, 116 sedition, disaffection as, 324 Sontag, Susan, 285 self, affection of, 430 space and time in relation to affect, 2, 3, 14 self-disgust, 179 special effects. See CGI effects self-interest. See interest spectatorship, 284, 289, 421 sensation Spenser, Edmund, 221 affect, and, 2, 5, 176 Spinoza, Baruch, 66–71 Descartes’s notion of, 435, 439 affect and life in work of, 66, 67 modality, and, 393, 397, 399 affections (affectio, affectus), theory of, 5, 67, poetic emotion, and, 18 121, 165, 216, 393 sensibility basic trio of affects (desire, joy, and affect, and, 8 sadness), 67 faculty of, 393 body and mind in relation, 160, 173, 215 sensible pleasure, 55 conatus, theory of, 67 sensory modes, translation of, 309, 400 Descartes and, 426 sentimentality freedom, theory of, 69 affect and, 321 geometrical method of philosophy, 66 Practical Criticism and, 83–88 God and nature in relation, 66, 70 sexual violence human nature, theory of, 69 Korean language and literature, 179 humans as social beings, 68 queer theory, 146–50 joy, theory of, 66, 70

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knowledge, theory of, 68, 70 Tomkins, Silvan, 3, 6, 136, 137, 138, 163 Massumi’s affect theory, and, 159, 160 tone meaning and understanding in relation, 161 ‘aboutness’ of, 268 metaphysics, 66 affect and, 20 modality, on, 393 antihumanism and, 268 power, theory of, 67 creation of, 268 Spivak, Gayatri, 185, 318, 319 interest and, 96 startle, affective range of, 6 Practical Criticism and, 91, 92, 94, 96 ‘State homosexual,’ ﬁgure of, 148 tragedy Stoic control of emotions, 33 correspondence (exchange) on, 54, 57 structures of feeling, 4, 10, 12, 13, 102, 133, 142, fear and, 39–42 324, 328 Paradox of Tragedy, 204 style pity and, 41 affect and, 17 transformation of identity, 294 camp and, 285 translation subaltern affect Adorno in English, 104, 107, 109 capitalism and, 318 affect and, 185, 417 colonization of body and mind, 321 affectus, 9, 127 foreclosure, concept of, 320 cultural and linguistic translation in relation, imperialism and, 322 25, 307 lives of misery, 326 dependency upon, 368 postcolonial India, 317–31 Descartes, of, 434 postcolonialism and, 319 early modern writing, in, 224 representation of subaltern histories, 321 Eliot (T. S.) in French, 124 transmission of affect, 318, 327 feeling, 220 sublimity Freud in English, 120 affect and, 9 Freud in French, 320 terror and, 9 Hocquenghem in English, 140 wonder and, 9 Marx’s Capital in English, 100 suffering and sickness, Nietzsche’s theory of, 74 non-English languages, from, 175–86 surprise, affective range of, 6 passions, 58 suspense postcolonial affect, 175–86 affect and, 13, 19 sensory modes, 309, 400 laughter and, 242 shame, 36 redemption and, 274 states of emotion, of, 33 sense of, 412 trauma textual, 14, 21 affect and, 312 suspension-images, 411–14 postcolonial affect, and, 302 sympathetic intuition, Bergson’s theory of, 76 shock and, 302, 313 sympathy and aesthetics, 62 victimhood and, 305 Tyrtaeus of Sparta, 36, 39, 42 technology, antihumanism and, 267 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron, 237 understanding terror. See also fear faculty of, 393 affective range of, 6 meaning, and, 161 death and, 121 unhappiness. See happiness Descartes and, 437 universalism of affect, 33 imagination and, 199, 201 pain and, 10 Varela, Francesco, 433 sublimity and, 9 Vegetarian, The (novel, Han Kang) terrorism. See War on Terror concept of anger (Han), 183 thought, meaning and, 173 sectional structure of, 177 300 (ﬁlm), 414, 417 summary of storyline, 176 time and space in relation to affect, 2, 3, 14 Westernized reading of, 176 timing of affect, 160 victimhood and trauma, 305

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Victorian realistic fiction, affect in, 310 cultural and emotional manipulation in violence relation, 373 colonialism and, 324 desert romances and, 373 queer theory, in, 148 hearts and minds missions, 378–79 victimhood and trauma, 305 Islamophobic discourses on sharia law, 382–86 ways of life, war between, 380–81 Walton, Kendall, 39, ways of life, ideological conflict between, 380–81 196–98 Williams, Raymond, 10, 101, 328 war will-to-power, Nietzsche’s theory of, 71 happiness and, 379 wonder poetic exhortations to courage, 34 astonishment and, 411, 417 War on Terror, 373–86 awe and, 203 affective capture and, 375–78 CGI and experience of, 408 Agrabah poll and affective fiction, 381–82 sublimity and, 9