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oapen-20.500.12657-558202022-06-02T03:15:55Z Chapter Chronotopes of Affectivity in Literature. On Melancholy, Estrangement, and Reflective Nostalgia Salmon, Laura Literary emotions nostalgia Literature & cognitive science chronotopes Basing our analysis on the concepts of ‘emotion’, ‘feeling’, and ‘mood’ as defined by data from the cognitive sciences, we argue that human emotions are both universal and intrinsically linked to literary and artistic chronotopes. In her study of 'reflective' and 'restorative' nostalgia, Svetlana Boym (2001) shows that 'nostalgia' itself represents pure ambivalence that takes on a particular shape in response to the mood, thoughts, and psychological state of the author. Its ultimate expression might assume the form of either monological ideology or of paradoxical existential emotion. It is this second type of nostalgia that we can link most closely link to understandings of both 'melancholy' and 'identity' or 'self-consciousness'. Brooding and melancholic toska is shared by persons who suffer from what we might call 'existential ambivalence'; these persons are 'mercurials' in the terminology of Yuri Slezkine (2004). Within the field of Russian literature, this 'mercurial' sense of melancholy is particularly well developed. 2022-06-01T12:06:32Z 2022-06-01T12:06:32Z 2015 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788866558224_3 2612-7679 9788866558224 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55820 eng Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 15566.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-6655-822-4_2 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.02 10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.02 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788866558224 28 20 Florence open access
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Basing our analysis on the concepts of ‘emotion’, ‘feeling’, and ‘mood’ as defined by data from the cognitive sciences, we argue that human emotions are both universal and intrinsically linked to literary and artistic chronotopes. In her study of 'reflective' and 'restorative' nostalgia, Svetlana Boym (2001) shows that 'nostalgia' itself represents pure ambivalence that takes on a particular shape in response to the mood, thoughts, and psychological state of the author. Its ultimate expression might assume the form of either monological ideology or of paradoxical existential emotion. It is this second type of nostalgia that we can link most closely link to understandings of both 'melancholy' and 'identity' or 'self-consciousness'. Brooding and melancholic toska is shared by persons who suffer from what we might call 'existential ambivalence'; these persons are 'mercurials' in the terminology of Yuri Slezkine (2004). Within the field of Russian literature, this 'mercurial' sense of melancholy is particularly well developed.
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