Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism

by Jonathan Flatley

The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674030788
• ISBN13: 9780674030787
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"