Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy: Dreams We Learn - Couverture souple

Lucas, Duncan A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030069281 ISBN 13 : 9783030069285

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Synopsis

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 theories of human motivation and emotion, before considering tragedy via case studies of Oedipus, Hamlet, and Death of a Salesman.  Aligning Affect-Script theory with literary genre studies, this text explores what motivates fictional characters within the closed conditions of their imagined worlds and how we as an audience relate to and understand fictional characters as motivated humans.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Duncan A. Lucas is Professor of Communications in the Department of Liberal Studies at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030069281
• ISBN 13: 9783030069285
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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