The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, Donald R. Wehrs; Thomas Blake

1 Introduction: Affect and Texts: Contemporary Inquiry in Historical Contexts32 Place-in-Process in Colm Tуibнns The Blackwater Lightship: Human Affect and the Physical Environment.- 2 Affect and Emotion: James, Dewey, Tomkins, Damasio, Massumi, Spinoza.- 3 Affect Studies and Cognitive Approaches to Literature.- 4 The Bio-Cultural Evolution of Language and Prosocial Emotions.- 5 Trust in Theatre.-6 Social Identity: Categorization, Cognition, and Affect.-7 Affective Aversion, Ethics, and Fiction.- 8 Affect and Narratology.- 9 The Turn to Affect: Emotions without Subjects, Causality without Demonstrable Cause.-10 Are there States of Mind Which We Can Call Inner Sensuousness?.- 11 Affect and Intention in Rhetoric and Poetics.- 12 Empathy and Love: Types of Textuality and Degrees of Affectivity.- 13 Thats Deep! The Role of Being Moved and Feelings of Profundity in the Appreciation of Serious Narratives.- 14 The Priority of Form: Kenneth Burke and the Rediscovery of Affect and Rhetoric.- 15 Tragedy Before Pity and Fear.- 16 Narrative and Affect in Epic, Romance, and the Novel.- 17 Empathys Neglected Cousin: How Narratives Shape Our Sympathy.- 18 Laurence Sternes Poor Maria as Model of Empathic Response.-19 Film and Affect, Theories Entwined: The Case of the War Genre in Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998).- 20 Medieval English Texts and Affects: Narratives as Tools for Feeling.- 21 Rhythmic Cognition in Late Medieval Lyrics: BL MS Harley 2253.-22 A Wild Fable: Affect and Reception of Fernando de Rojas Celestina (1499).- 23 Don Quixotes Affective Thoughts.- 24 Descartes, Emotions and the Inner Life of the Subject.- 25 The History and Science of Feeling Wordsworths Affective Poetics, Then and Now.- 26 Kierkegaards Ugly Feelings.- 27 Affect and the Victorian Novel.-28 Affect in Film Music: A Brief History.- 29 Affect and Fascism in Lolita.- 30 From Bateman to Rat Man: American Psychos Unnatural Selections.- 31 Fascism, Torture, and Affect in Postwar Spain: Memoria Histуrica Narratives and Audience Empathy.