Spectrum of Emotions: From Love to Grief

by Wojciech Drag (Editor), Ewa Keblowska-Lawniczak (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. The 18 articles examine the representations of emotion in drama, poetry and prose - from the medieval Court of Love to Ali Smith's How to Be Both - as well as in life writing, music and the visual arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631659342
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/06/2016
Series:	Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures , #5
Pages:	227
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wojciech Drąg lectures at the Department of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wrocław.
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak is Professor of English Literature at the University of Wrocław.

Table of Contents

Contents: Joanna Bukowska: The Tour of The Court of Love: The Tradition of Amatory Poetry and Its Readjustments in Chaucerian Apocrypha – Aleksandra Kędzierska: «Memories of Love»: Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain – Anna Cholewa-Purgał: Romantic Theology of Love According to Charles Williams – Tomasz Kulka: The Sense of the Divine: The Complexities of Wonder in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead – Maria Antonietta Struzziero: Discourses of Love and Desire in Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping – Rod Mengham: The Obscene Emotions of Nell Dunn – Tomasz Basiuk: Warhol and Queer Shame – Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak: Double Portrait with Ambiguous Loss: Shame, Grief and Art in Patti Smith’s Relational Memoir Just Kids – Dominika Ferens: Belated Interest: Reading the Fiction of Sigrid Nunez through Silvan Tomkins’s Affect Theory – Rachael Sumner: The Anatomy of Grief in Ali Smith’s Novel How to Be Both – Anna Maria Tomczak: Ways of Grieving: Bharati Mukherjee’s «The Management of Grief» and Jhumpa Lahiri’s «Hema and Kaushik» – Rowland Cotterill: Emotions, Emotionalism, and Moods: Can We Give Hamlet Any Good Advice? – Grzegorz Moroz: Travel Books, Nostalgia and Paratexts: The Case of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts – Bożena Kucała: Reticence and Reclusion in William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault – Andrzej Księżopolski: Emotional Carnage: Experience and Recollections of War in Ian McEwan’s Atonement – Corina Crişu: «A Welter of Emotions:» (Re)writing Exile in Irina Pană’s Romanian-Australian Memoir – Wojciech Kozak: Envy Revisited: Muriel Spark’s The Finishing School – Michael Hollington: Music, Poetry, Parody: Collins’s «The Passions: An Ode for Music» and Dickens’s Great Expectations.

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