Production of Emotions

The essays of this collection are, each in their own way, an attempt to address the centrality of emotions in literary and cultural production in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies. Emotions are understood as mobile forms or forces, crossing between subjects and locations. The interdisciplinary and diverse nature of this collection reflects the view that emotions are interpersonal and forever slipping beyond our grasp. Yet, in thinking about emotion, we discover unexpected confluences. The contributions in this volume are grouped in five areas which reflect larger categories and provide a valid platform for interpretation of emotions: dynamics of modern culture, history, social sciences, interpersonal contexts, and imagination.

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Teresa Brus is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw. Her research interests include contemporary Canadian literature and life writing.
Marcin Tereszewski is Assistant Professor at the University of Wroclaw. His research interests include English literature, Samuel Beckett, and literary theory/criticism.

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Contents: Marta Komsta: «They All Look and Speak Like Machines:» A Rational Dystopia in Andrew Acworth's A «New Eden» - Marcin Tereszewski: The Death of Affect: Embracing Capitalist Alienation in J.G. Ballard's Fiction - Ewa Kowal: Financial and Emotional Geometries in Dan Gilroy's «Nightcrawler», Crash by J.G. Ballard and Crash by David Cronenberg - Ryszard W. Wolny: Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho (1991): A Study in Consumerist Void of Emotions - Stankomir Nicieja: The Foreign City as an Emotional Catalyst: Revisiting Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003) - Jacek Mydla: Joanna Baillie's Dramatic Experiments with Strong Passions in the Light of the Idea of Sympathetic Spectatorship - Malgorzata Luczynska-Holdys: The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom: Emotions, Superfluity and the Body in Selected Romantic Texts - Ewa Blasiak: Emotional Patterns in Morality Plays - Tomasz Dobrogoszcz: «Entering an Arena of Adult Emotion:» Briony's Recognition of Otherness in Ian McEwan's Atonement - Katarzyna Fetlinska: Homo Ludens: The Role of Pleasure in Iain Banks's «The Player of Games» Murari Prasad: The Representation of Emotion in Arundhati Roy's «The God of Small Things» - Kornelia Boczkowska: A Transcendental Response to Space Travel and the Alien Contact: Emotion Elicitation in Walt Disney's and Pavel Klushantsev's Early Space Age Documentaries - Agnieszka Lobodziec: Richard Wright's Emotionalization of Racial Experience in «American Hunger» - Marek Pawlicki: The Many Faces of Homelessness: Politics, Emotions and Ethics in Nadine Gordimer's «A Guest of Honour» - Patrycja Austin: Emotions Written in the Key of Life: Music and Individuality in Kazuo Ishiguro's «Never Let Me Go» - Teresa Brus: Moments of Emotions: Virginia Woolf Looks at Portraits - Elzbieta Litwin: The Triadic Nature of Emotion and Subtext: A Close Semiotic Reading of the «You Shall Not Pass» Scene in Peter Jackson's Film Adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's «The Lord of the Rings»: «The Fellowship of the Ring».