{"product_id":"how-to-do-things-with-affects-affective-triggers-in-aesthetic-forms-and-cultural-practices-9789004397699","title":"How to Do Things with Affects: Affective Triggers in Aesthetic Forms and Cultural Practices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to Do Things with Affects develops affect as a highly productive concept for both cultural analysis and the reading of aesthetic forms. Shifting the focus from individual experiences and the human interiority of personal emotions and feelings toward the agency of cultural objects, social arrangements, and aesthetic matter, the book examines how affects operate and are triggered by aesthetic forms, media events, and cultural practices. Transgressing disciplinary boundaries and emphasizing close reading, the collected essays explore manifold affective transmissions and resonances enacted by modernist literary works, contemporary visual arts, horror and documentary films, museum displays, and animated pornography, with a special focus on how they impact on political events, media strategies, and social situations.    Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Pietro Conte, Anne Fleig, Bernd Herzogenrath, Tomáš Jirsa, Matthias Lüthjohann, Susanna Paasonen, Christina Riley, Jan Slaby, Eliza Steinbock,  Christiane Voss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The major strengths of How to Do Things with Affects [...] are the multidisciplinary exemplification of a very general schema and the refinement of what exactly is meant by the stylish phrase, 'to restore agency to form.' Scholars working to recuperate literature and art as suitable objects of inquiry in affect studies will find several essays here that bolster that effort. All in all, if something of a formalist turn is underway in affect theory, How to Do Things with Affects [...] is an enriching volume that can serve as an introduction to that turn or an abundant development of it.  - Stephanie Amon, Afterimage (2020) 47 (2): 93–96.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors  Introduction: Mapping Affective Operations   Ernst van Alphen and Tomáš Jirsa    PART 1  Triggering the Affects  1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s Diary   Maria Boletsi  2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-Realism   Pietro Conte  3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural Studies   Jan Slaby  4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a Toroid   Eugenie Brinkema  5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities   Anne Fleig and Matthias Lüthjohann    PART 2  Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations  6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great War   Tomáš Jirsa  7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated Pornography   Susanna Paasonen  8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of Sensation   Ernst van Alphen    PART 3  Affects as Triggers  9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political Strategy   Mieke Bal  10 Affect Is the Medium   Christiane Voss  11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic Writing   Bernd Herzogenrath  12 The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue Bra   Christina Riley  13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic Dissolve   Eliza Steinbock  Name Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210773455191,"sku":"9789004397699","price":84.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-to-do-things-with-affects-affective-triggers-in-aesthetic-forms-and-cultural-practices-9789004397699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}