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  1. <<The>> Routledge companion to literature and emotion
    Contributor: Hogan, Patrick Colm (Herausgeber); Irish, Bradley J (Herausgeber); Hogan, Lalita Pandit (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; New York, NY

    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to... more

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    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion. Looking at a variety of formats including novels, drama, film, graphic fiction, and lyric poetry the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. The volume introduces the theoretical groundwork, covering such categories as affect theory, affective neuroscience, cognitive science, evolution, and history of emotions. It examines the range of emotions that play a special role in literature, including happiness, fear, aesthetic delight, empathy, and sympathy, as well as aspects of literature (style, narrative voice, and others) that bear on emotional response. Finally, it explores ethical and political concerns that are often intertwined with emotional response, including racism, colonialism, disability, ecology, gender, sexuality, and trauma. This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new, interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect—in fields from neuroscience to social theory--are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Hogan, Patrick Colm (Herausgeber); Irish, Bradley J (Herausgeber); Hogan, Lalita Pandit (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367409159; 9781032219226
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: Routledge literature companions
    Subjects: Literary criticism; Apollonius of Rhodes; Appraisal; Aristotle; aesthetics; aesthetics of poetry; aesthetic emotions; affect; affective ecocriticism; affective historicism; affective practices; affective structures; affect theory; alcoholism; anger; apostrophe; attachment; attachment-detachment; audiovisual media; Black feminisms; British Empire; basic emotions; bildungsroman; Cardinal Thomas Wolsey; Chaucer; Comedy; Conrad; Cymbeline; character; climate fiction; cognition; colonizer; coming of age; conceptual integration; conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; constructed emotion; context; craft analysis; creativity; criterial prefocussing; cultural studies; Dhvani; decolonization; defamiliarization; direct address; disability; discourse; disgust; Edmund Spenser; Elizabeth Bishop; Elizabeth Bowen; Embodied cognition; Emotional Tears; Emotion Systems; Empiricism; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; econarratology; eco-criticism; embodied cognition; embodied simulation; embodiment; emotion; emotional contagion; emotions in the lyric; emotion concepts; emotion regulation; emotion systems; empathy; enactivism; encapsulated interest; ethics; ethnoracial pause; evolution; exploration; expression; Fatwa; fair play; fascination; feminism; fiction; film; force dynamics; frames; Gender; Gilles Deleuze; Gone Girl; Gothic fiction; G. Gabrielle Starr; gender; gender and emotion; graphic narrative; Habila; Hamlet; Hans Robert Jauss; Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; habitus; healing; historical periodisation; history of emotion; history of emotions; history of literature; identification; image schema; inferences; intergroup emotion; irony; Jenefer Robinson; Jonathan Haidt; Joseph Henrich; Joshua Greene; Kendall Walton; King Lear; literary creativity; literary Darwinism; literary genres; literary judgement; literary meaning; literary reading; literary universals; literature; love; Macbeth; Medea; Milton; Murder of Roger Ackroyd; marginalization; materiality; mediality; mental imagery; mental simulation; mental spaces; mind-modelling; mind-style; mirror neurons; Nigerian fiction; narrative; narrative genres; narrative permissibility; narrative resolution; narrator; neocolonialism; neuroscience; Orientalism; Orphan of Zhào; Parasocial Relationships; PEN International; Plato; PSR; paradox of fiction; paradox of tragedy; participation; passions; phenomenology; plot; plot tricks; poetics; poetic imagery; postcolonial; posthumanism; post-structuralism; predictive processing; prose fiction; psychotherapy; queer studies; queer theory; Rasa; Reception Theory; Reciprocal Altruism; Research Methods; Restoration drama; Romeo and Juliet; R.G. Collingwood; race; race and ethnicity; racialization; reader emotions; reception studies; reparative reading; rhetoric; Shakespeare; Stanley Fish; Susanne K. Langer; sexuality; sexual literacy; similarity assessment; simulation; situation models; slavery; social capital; social cognition; social construction; sociology of emotion; spatial cognition; stigmatization; story function; story structure; strategic narrative empathy; structures of feeling; style; sublime; sympathy; Teens; Text processing; The Godfather; The Tempest; The Water Knife; The Years; Tragedy; Trust; texture; the Sympathizer; tone; transportation; trauma; trust; Usual Suspects; universals; unreliable narration; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Virginia Woolf; WEIRD societies; W.S. Merwin; Emotions in literature; Affect (Psychology) in literature
    Scope: xvii, 495 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  2. The Routledge companion to literature and emotion
    Contributor: Hogan, Patrick Colm (Herausgeber); Irish, Bradley J. (Herausgeber); Hogan, Lalita Pandit (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; New York, NY

    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to... more

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    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion. Looking at a variety of formats including novels, drama, film, graphic fiction, and lyric poetry the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Viet Thanh Nguyen. The volume introduces the theoretical groundwork, covering such categories as affect theory, affective neuroscience, cognitive science, evolution, and history of emotions. It examines the range of emotions that play a special role in literature, including happiness, fear, aesthetic delight, empathy, and sympathy, as well as aspects of literature (style, narrative voice, and others) that bear on emotional response. Finally, it explores ethical and political concerns that are often intertwined with emotional response, including racism, colonialism, disability, ecology, gender, sexuality, and trauma. This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new, interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect—in fields from neuroscience to social theory--are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Hogan, Patrick Colm (Herausgeber); Irish, Bradley J. (Herausgeber); Hogan, Lalita Pandit (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780367409159; 9781032219226
    Other identifier:
    9780367409159
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: Routledge literature companions
    Subjects: Emotions in literature; Affect (Psychology) in literature
    Other subjects: Literary criticism; Apollonius of Rhodes; Appraisal; Aristotle; aesthetics; aesthetics of poetry; aesthetic emotions; affect; affective ecocriticism; affective historicism; affective practices; affective structures; affect theory; alcoholism; anger; apostrophe; attachment; attachment-detachment; audiovisual media; Black feminisms; British Empire; basic emotions; bildungsroman; Cardinal Thomas Wolsey; Chaucer; Comedy; Conrad; Cymbeline; character; climate fiction; cognition; colonizer; coming of age; conceptual integration; conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; constructed emotion; context; craft analysis; creativity; criterial prefocussing; cultural studies; Dhvani; decolonization; defamiliarization; direct address; disability; discourse; disgust; Edmund Spenser; Elizabeth Bishop; Elizabeth Bowen; Embodied cognition; Emotional Tears; Emotion Systems; Empiricism; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; econarratology; eco-criticism; embodied cognition; embodied simulation; embodiment; emotion; emotional contagion; emotions in the lyric; emotion concepts; emotion regulation; emotion systems; empathy; enactivism; encapsulated interest; ethics; ethnoracial pause; evolution; exploration; expression; Fatwa; fair play; fascination; feminism; fiction; film; force dynamics; frames; Gender; Gilles Deleuze; Gone Girl; Gothic fiction; G. Gabrielle Starr; gender; gender and emotion; graphic narrative; Habila; Hamlet; Hans Robert Jauss; Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; habitus; healing; historical periodisation; history of emotion; history of emotions; history of literature; identification; image schema; inferences; intergroup emotion; irony; Jenefer Robinson; Jonathan Haidt; Joseph Henrich; Joshua Greene; Kendall Walton; King Lear; literary creativity; literary Darwinism; literary genres; literary judgement; literary meaning; literary reading; literary universals; literature; love; Macbeth; Medea; Milton; Murder of Roger Ackroyd; marginalization; materiality; mediality; mental imagery; mental simulation; mental spaces; mind-modelling; mind-style; mirror neurons; Nigerian fiction; narrative; narrative genres; narrative permissibility; narrative resolution; narrator; neocolonialism; neuroscience; Orientalism; Orphan of Zhào; Parasocial Relationships; PEN International; Plato; PSR; paradox of fiction; paradox of tragedy; participation; passions; phenomenology; plot; plot tricks; poetics; poetic imagery; postcolonial; posthumanism; post-structuralism; predictive processing; prose fiction; psychotherapy; queer studies; queer theory; Rasa; Reception Theory; Reciprocal Altruism; Research Methods; Restoration drama; Romeo and Juliet; R.G. Collingwood; race; race and ethnicity; racialization; reader emotions; reception studies; reparative reading; rhetoric; Shakespeare; Stanley Fish; Susanne K. Langer; sexuality; sexual literacy; similarity assessment; simulation; situation models; slavery; social capital; social cognition; social construction; sociology of emotion; spatial cognition; stigmatization; story function; story structure; strategic narrative empathy; structures of feeling; style; sublime; sympathy; Teens; Text processing; The Godfather; The Tempest; The Water Knife; The Years; Tragedy; Trust; texture; the Sympathizer; tone; transportation; trauma; trust; Usual Suspects; universals; unreliable narration; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Virginia Woolf; WEIRD societies; W.S. Merwin
    Scope: xvii, 495 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Literaturangaben
  3. Die Argonauten in Afrika
    Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der ›Argonautika‹ des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781)
    Author: Stürner, Stefanie
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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  4. Die Argonauten in Afrika
    Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der Argonautika des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781)
    Author: Stürner, Stefanie
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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  5. Sophocles
    A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context
    Author: Jouanna, Jacques
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Sophocles the Athenian -- Prelude: A Snapshot of Sophocles -- Chapter I. The Young Sophocles -- Chapter II. Sophocles the Politician -- Chapter III. Sophocles the Religious Man -- Chapter IV. Sophocles and Dionysus:... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Sophocles the Athenian -- Prelude: A Snapshot of Sophocles -- Chapter I. The Young Sophocles -- Chapter II. Sophocles the Politician -- Chapter III. Sophocles the Religious Man -- Chapter IV. Sophocles and Dionysus: The Theatrical Career -- Chapter V. Happy Sophocles -- Part II. Sophocles the Tragic Poet -- Prelude: A Tragic Disaster -- Chapter VI. The Mythic Imagination -- Chapter VII. Space and Spectacle -- Chapter VIII. Time and Action -- Chapter IX. The Characters -- Chapter X. Humans and the Gods -- Chapter XI. Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding -- Deus ex Machina: Time and Nature -- Appendix I: Presentation of Sophocles' Extant Tragedies -- Appendix II: Sophocles, Fragments: List and Presentation of the Plays Extant in the Form of Fragments -- Appendix III: The Identification of Sophocles as a Hellenotamias -- Appendix IV: Dio Chrysostom, Discourse 52: On Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; or, the Bow of Philoctetes -- Appendix V -- Notes -- Bibliographical Guide -- List of Translations Used in the English Edition -- General Index -- Index Locorum Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century.Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary.Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama.Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come

     
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  6. Celestial aspirations
    classical impulses in British poetry and art
    Author: Hardie, Philip R.
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Antiquity -- 3. Late Sixteenth Century to the Exaltation of Newton -- 4. Milton -- 5. After Milton -- 6 Visions of Apotheosis and Glory on Painted... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Antiquity -- 3. Late Sixteenth Century to the Exaltation of Newton -- 4. Milton -- 5. After Milton -- 6 Visions of Apotheosis and Glory on Painted Ceilings -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Discussed -- General Index -- A Note on the Type A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual, and religious-displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes, through philosophical, scientific, and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler.From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio, and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies, and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, while also being one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens-as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other.Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era

     
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  7. Die Argonauten in Afrika
    Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der ›Argonautika‹ des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781)
    Author: Stürner, Stefanie
    Published: 2023
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  8. <<Die>> Argonauten in Afrika
    Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der Argonautika des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781)
    Author: Stürner, Stefanie
    Published: [2022]
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    Language: German; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 9783110686357; 311068635X
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    DDC Categories: 880
    Series: Texte und Kommentare ; Band 69
    Subjects: Apollonius;
    Other subjects: Classical texts; Apollonios von Rhodos; Hellenistische Dichtung; Griechisches Epos; Narratologie; Apollonius of Rhodes; Hellenistic poetry; Greek epic; narratology; Verstehen
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  9. Celestial aspirations
    classical impulses in British poetry and art
    Author: Hardie, Philip R.
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Antiquity -- 3. Late Sixteenth Century to the Exaltation of Newton -- 4. Milton -- 5. After Milton -- 6 Visions of Apotheosis and Glory on Painted... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Classical Antiquity -- 3. Late Sixteenth Century to the Exaltation of Newton -- 4. Milton -- 5. After Milton -- 6 Visions of Apotheosis and Glory on Painted Ceilings -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Discussed -- General Index -- A Note on the Type A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual, and religious-displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes, through philosophical, scientific, and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler.From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio, and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies, and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, while also being one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens-as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other.Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era

     
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