Affective mapping : melancholia and the politics of modernism / 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...

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Main Author: Flatley, Jonathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Summary:"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 to loss."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 263 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674036963
0674036964
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.