The Artifice of Affect : American Realist Literature and Emotional Truth
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1399507990
ISBN-13
9781399507998
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 12th, 2024
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
488 grams
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22.30 x 14.40 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Offers a literary and cultural critique of the concept of true feeling, using affect theory to analyze post-war realist literatures
Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary texts too often become agents of conformity. Nowhere is this risk explored more fully than in a range of American realist texts from the Cold War to the twentieth century’s end. For the works of writers such as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Kathleen Collins, Paula Fox, Ralph Ellison, or Richard Yates, formulate trenchant critiques of true feeling’s aesthetic and social imperatives. The arguments at the heart of this book aim to re-frame emotional processes as visceral constructions, which should not be held to the standards of static ideals of accuracy, legitimacy, or veracity.
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