Emotion, Affect, Sentiment: The Language and Aesthetics of Feeling

Bringing together experts from linguistics, medieval and modern literary studies, this volume offers a transhistorical look at the language and cultural work of emotion in a variety of written, oral and visual texts. Contributors engage with the recent so-called affective turn, but also examine the...

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Other Authors: Langlotz, Andreas (Editor), Soltysik Monnet, Agnieszka (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen Gunter Narr Verlag 2014
Edition:[1. Auflage]
Series:Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL) 30
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Online Access:DE-12
DE-384
DE-739
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Summary:Bringing together experts from linguistics, medieval and modern literary studies, this volume offers a transhistorical look at the language and cultural work of emotion in a variety of written, oral and visual texts. Contributors engage with the recent so-called affective turn, but also examine the language and use of emotion from a variety of perspectives, touching on issues such as Romantic and Modernist aesthetics, the history of emotions, melodrama and the Gothic, emotional rhetoric, reception aesthetics, rudeness, swearing and attitudes to varieties of English
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (278 Seiten)
ISBN:9783823378891
DOI:10.2357/9783823378891