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by Jonathan Flatley

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The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.

The texts at the center of Flatley's analysis--Henry James's Turn of the Screw, W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, and Andrei Platonov's Chevengur--share with Freud an interest in understanding the depressing effects of difficult losses and with Walter Benjamin the hope that loss itself could become a means of connection and the basis for social transformation. For Du Bois, Platonov, and James, the focus on melancholy illuminates both the historical origins of subjective emotional life and a heretofore unarticulated community of melancholics. The affective maps they produce make possible the conversion of a depressive melancholia into a way to be interested in the world.

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  • Title Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
  • Author Jonathan Flatley
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 2008-11-28
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780674030787 / 0674030788
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects James, Henry, American literature - 19th century - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007052771
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.935
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