Writing the Passions

ISBN-13: 9781138159778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 284 str.

David Punter

Opis

Writing the Passions is a book of literary criticism, of philosophy and of the politics of modernity. It explores the arguments on the location of feeling in literature; on the fragmentation of the self under the pressure of the passions; of the place of the passions in psychoanalytic practice and theory; and on the notions of multiplicity, soul, spirit, polytheism and animism developed from their bases in psychoanalytic and Derridean theory.

Recenzje

'This is a book that dazzles by its commitment as well as by its range, and that puts the blinkered and finicky projects of most university criticism in the shade. It calls to mind the historical reach of Kermode's Genesis of Secrecy, and before that Praz's The Romantic Agony and Auberbach's Mimesis while being, in itself, contemporary, and bravely so'. - Professor Geoff Ward, University of Dundee

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Passions; Chapter 2 Towards a Passional History; Chapter 3 Boundaries of Passion in the Renaissance; Chapter 4 Adoration and Abjection; Chapter 5 Dread and Disgust, Fascination and the Exotic; Chapter 6 The Contemporary Passional; Chapter 7 The ‘Rich in Lustre’ and the Narrative of Melancholy; Chapter 8 Passion, Shame and Irony; Chapter 9 The Barbarian, the Dark Station and the Passion of the Text; Chapter 10 Mysteries of the Passions;

O autorze

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. His previous books include The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (1980; revised 2 volume edition 1996); Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (with David Aers and Jonathan Cook, 1981); Blake, Hegel and Dialectic (1982) and The Hidden Script: Writing and the Unconscious (1985).