東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

In Media Res: The Intersection of Af...

Welch, Robert.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

In Media Res: The Intersection of Affect and American Literary Naturalism.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	In Media Res: The Intersection of Affect and American Literary Naturalism./
作者:	Welch, Robert.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	197 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-09A(E).
標題:	American literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10266325
ISBN:	9781369703078

In Media Res: The Intersection of Affect and American Literary Naturalism.
Welch, Robert.

In Media Res: The Intersection of Affect and American Literary Naturalism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 197 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

Affect Theory is peopled by progressives anxious to expose the structures of interpersonal power that shape people's lives. Society's approval or disapproval is conveyed through emotive signals to the individual and experienced as either good or bad feelings. Feelings serve as either positive or negative reinforcement for what the larger group has adopted as normal. Scholars like Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Anne Cvetkovich have published extensively on how this method of considering dynamics between individual identity and group identity impacts the core issue of agency. Of particular interest for each of these writers is the way in which media reiterate guiding societal standards. This concern about the power of media can be traced to the roots of Affect Theory in Marxist discourses. However, appreciation of media and its use of emotion as a tool to shape behavior are not limited to twentieth and twenty-first-century critics.

ISBN: 9781369703078Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

In Media Res: The Intersection of Affect and American Literary Naturalism.
LDR:03686nmm a2200313 4500 001 2124265
005 20171023115426.5
008 180830s2017 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781369703078
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10266325
035 $a AAI10266325
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Welch, Robert. $3 3286254
245 1 0 $a In Media Res: The Intersection of Affect and American Literary Naturalism.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2017
300 $a 197 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-09(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Todd N. Thompson.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
520 $a Affect Theory is peopled by progressives anxious to expose the structures of interpersonal power that shape people's lives. Society's approval or disapproval is conveyed through emotive signals to the individual and experienced as either good or bad feelings. Feelings serve as either positive or negative reinforcement for what the larger group has adopted as normal. Scholars like Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Anne Cvetkovich have published extensively on how this method of considering dynamics between individual identity and group identity impacts the core issue of agency. Of particular interest for each of these writers is the way in which media reiterate guiding societal standards. This concern about the power of media can be traced to the roots of Affect Theory in Marxist discourses. However, appreciation of media and its use of emotion as a tool to shape behavior are not limited to twentieth and twenty-first-century critics.
520 $a The works of American literary naturalists mirror the same concern shown by recent Affect theorists on the use of media and emotion. Criticism written by Frank Norris and Hamlin Garland through the last decade of the nineteenth century strongly emphasize these points with an overt aim of enhancing individual agency as part of a progressive political aim to promote the democratic nature of society in the United States. The media that Norris and Garland choose to discuss is largely limited to the novel, but they each argue that the novel provides a powerful voice for enshrining and promulgating the values of a people. Looking back, at these authors who exist at what has been termed the nadir of race relations and who tend to think in terms of "mankind" rather than humanity, it is easy to discount the progressive nature of their works as being, in fact, merely self-promotion of the majority. However, the criticism of each centers on the encouragement of readers to become writers, to engage with the written word from an informed and reflective position, with a particular awareness for what emotion accomplishes. For that reason, the progressive stances of American literary naturalists should not be discounted.
520 $a This study examines the critical works of Frank Norris and Hamlin Garland, comparing them to similar projects by Affect theorists, demonstrating how the naturalists work in a parallel vein with remarkably similar ends. I provide readings of literary works by both Norris and Garland in order to correlate how their critical concepts play out in execution. In conclusion, I turn to the literary work of Stephen Crane, fellow naturalist, to show how the ideas developed by Norris and Garland play out across the genre, and how these mirror those of Affect scholars.
590 $a School code: 0318.
650 4 $a American literature. $3 523234
650 4 $a Literature. $3 537498
690 $a 0591
690 $a 0401
710 2 $a Indiana University of Pennsylvania. $b English. $3 1026395
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 78-09A(E).
790 $a 0318
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2017
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10266325