Introduction

affect and texts

Donald R. Wehrs

1-93

Affect and emotion

James, Dewey, Tomkins, Damasio, Massumi, Spinoza

Käte Stanley

97-112

Affect studies and cognitive approaches to literature

Brook Miller

113-133

The bio-cultural evolution of language and prosocial emotions

Bruce McConachie

135-154

Trust in theater

Julia Reinhard Lupton

155-181

Social identity

categorization, cognition, and affect

Patrick Hogan

183-205

Affective aversion, ethics, and fiction

Thomas Blake

207-234

Affect and narratology

Claudia Breger

235-257

The turn to affect

emotions without subjects, causality without demonstrable cause

Richard C. Sha

259-278

Are there states of mind which we can call "inner sensuousness"?

Charles Altieri

279-298

Affect and intention in rhetoric and poetics

Marshall Alcorn

299-322

Empathy and love

types of textuality and degrees of affectivity

Dana LaCourse Munteanu

325-345

"That's deep!"

the role of being moved and feelings of profundity in the appreciation of serious narratives

Florian Cova, Julien Deonna, David Sander

347-369

The priority of form

Kenneth Burke and the rediscovery of affect and rhetoric

Jeff Pruchnic

371-390

Tragedy "before" pity and fear

Matthew J. Smith

391-412

Narrative and affect in epic, romance, and the novel

Donald R. Wehrs

413-449

Empathy's neglected cousin

how narratives shape our sympathy

Howard Sklar

451-480

Laurence Sterne's "Poor Maria" as model of empathic response

Gérard B. Vreeswijk

481-512

Film and affect, theories entwined

the case of the war genre in Aaving private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)

Jaimey Fisher

513-541

Medieval English texts and affects

narratives as tools for feeling

Antonina Harbus

545-576

Rhythmic cognition in late medieval lyrics

BL Ms Harley 2253

Nicholas Myklebust

577-608

A wild fable

affect and reception of Fernando de Rojas' Celestina (1499)

Julien J. Simon

609-625

Don Quixote's affective thoughts

Howard Mancing

627-652

Descartes, emotions and the inner life of the subject

Cecilia Sjöholm

653-669

"The history and science of feeling"

Wordsworth's affective poetics, then and now

Mark J. Bruhn

671-693

Kierkegaard's "ugly feelings"

Marta Figlerowicz

695-711

Affect and the Victorian novel

Audrey Jaffe

713-733

Affect and film music

a brief history

William Wehrs

735-752

Affect and fascism in Lolita

Lorna Wood

753-780

From Bateman to rat man

American Psycho's unnatural selections

Doug Haynes

781-801

Fascism, torture, and affect in postwar Spain

memoria histórica narratives and audience empathy

Isabel Jaén

803-826

Place-in-process in Colm Toíbín's The blackwater lightship

emotion, self-identity, and the environment

Nancy Easterlin

827-854