John Brenkman

Mood and Trope (eBook, ePUB)

The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Reconnect[s] affect studies with major issues in literary studies, philosophy, and aesthetics.... a fundamental contribution to this emergent field." -Jonathan Culler, Cornell University, author of Structuralist Poetics 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 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. "Combining philosophical inquiry with brilliant interpretive readings, Brenkman, draws out the distinctive imbrications of mood and trope across a range of modern poetic projects." -Amanda Anderson, Brown University, author of Psyche and Ethos "Brenkman shows us how literature has extended and deepened the possibilities of feeling and knowledge of feeling alike." -Susan Stewart, Princeton University, author of The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics "Eminently readable." -Choice

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226673431
• Artikelnr.: 70126977

Autorenporträt

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.