Spectrum of Emotions

This volume offers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. The 18 articles examine the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose - from the medieval Court of Love to Ali Smith's How to Be Both - as well as in life writing, music and the visual arts.

The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies. The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. They demonstrate that the once stable concept of emotion disintegrates in the course of re-evaluation and is replaced by such notions as affects, passions, feelings and emotions. This volume examines the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose from the anonymous Court of Love (ca. 1500) to Ali Smith's How to Be Both (2014) as well as in life writing, music, the visual arts and theology.

Autorentext

Wojciech Dr g lectures at the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wroc aw. Ewa K b owska- awniczak is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wroc aw.

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Contents: Joanna Bukowska: The Tour of The Court of Love: The Tradition of Amatory Poetry and Its Readjustments in Chaucerian Apocrypha - Aleksandra Kedzierska: «Memories of Love»: Seamus Heaney's Human Chain - Anna Cholewa-Purgal: Romantic Theology of Love According to Charles Williams - Tomasz Kulka: The Sense of the Divine: The Complexities of Wonder in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead - Maria Antonietta Struzziero: Discourses of Love and Desire in Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping - Rod Mengham: The Obscene Emotions of Nell Dunn - Tomasz Basiuk: Warhol and Queer Shame - Elzbieta Klimek-Dominiak: Double Portrait with Ambiguous Loss: Shame, Grief and Art in Patti Smith's Relational Memoir Just Kids - Dominika Ferens: Belated Interest: Reading the Fiction of Sigrid Nunez through Silvan Tomkins's Affect Theory - Rachael Sumner: The Anatomy of Grief in Ali Smith's Novel How to Be Both - Anna Maria Tomczak: Ways of Grieving: Bharati Mukherjee's «The Management of Grief» and Jhumpa Lahiri's «Hema and Kaushik» - Rowland Cotterill: Emotions, Emotionalism, and Moods: Can We Give Hamlet Any Good Advice? - Grzegorz Moroz: Travel Books, Nostalgia and Paratexts: The Case of Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts - Bozena Kucala: Reticence and Reclusion in William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault - Andrzej Ksiezopolski: Emotional Carnage: Experience and Recollections of War in Ian McEwan's Atonement - Corina Crisu: «A Welter of Emotions:» (Re)writing Exile in Irina Pana's Romanian-Australian Memoir - Wojciech Kozak: Envy Revisited: Muriel Spark's The Finishing School - Michael Hollington: Music, Poetry, Parody: Collins's «The Passions: An Ode for Music» and Dickens's Great Expectations.