Feelings of Structure
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Feelings of Structure

Explorations in Affect

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eBook - ePub

Feelings of Structure

Explorations in Affect

About this book

Sweatsuits and the apocalypse, the demands of a sofa, a life recalled through window frames, whale watching through cancer, the serendipity of geographical names … in Feelings of Structure, these are just some of the spaces and places, memories, and experiences addressed by the authors in writings that are multilevel explorations of the tangled-up nature of feeling and structure.

Inspired by Raymond Williams's classic essay "Structures of Feeling" and influenced by the current discussion of affect studies, this collection inverts Williams's influential concept to explore the ephemerality of feeling as working in concert with the grounding forces of materiality and history. Feelings of Structure is a collection of twelve original texts that explores the weight of diverse encounters with a variety of configurations, be they institutional, spatial, historical, or fantastical. Featuring writers from a range of disciplines, this book aims for textual evocation in subject matter and approach, with essays that encompass multiple methodologies, writing styles, and tones.

Experimental in nature, Feelings of Structure balances the need for concrete and specific observation with the ephemerality of experience.

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Yes, you can access Feelings of Structure by Karen Engle, Yoke-Sum Wong, Karen Engle,Yoke-Sum Wong in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Thinking Feeling
  9. 1 The Sofa’s Objection: Troublesome Things and Affective Emplacements
  10. 2 Imagining Nighttime Detroit
  11. 3 Industrialism and the Time of Catastrophe: A Lesson in the Anthropocene
  12. 4 Still
  13. 5 The Tremendous Image: Viceland TV’s Abandoned Series and the Persistence of Ruin Porn
  14. 6 Frames of Love, or Love’s Perspective
  15. 7 Touched by a Whale
  16. 8 Time Gets Strange: Texan Hard-Luck Stories
  17. 9 The Future Is Hybrid: Isamu Noguchi and the Mid-Century Modern
  18. 10 Coloniality and the Carbonscape: Reflections on White Settlement and Sociogeny from inside a Cookie Factory
  19. 11 In, around, and under Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
  20. 12 Overwintering: On Robyn O’Neil’s Apocalyptic Landscapes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Contributors
  23. Index