Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy Dreams We Learn /

• Main Author: Lucas, Duncan A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Comparative literature.; Literary Theory.; Comparative Literature.

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins' Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy. The book begins with an overview of Tomkins' relationship to both traditional psychoanalysis and...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Theory
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Tomkins and Literature: A Hermeneutical Model
• 3. Tragedy and the Trope of Disgust
• Part II Application
• 4. Case Study One: Sophocles' Oedipus
• 5. Case Study Two: Shakespeare's Hamlet
• 6. Case Study Three: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmen
• 7. Conclusions: Dreams We Learn.