Overview
The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature, which foregrounds human experience, captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory. This collection of essays by leading comparatists acknowledges the timeless and ever-changing presence of the passions in literary texts and responds to multiple and changing contexts. Through the analysis of well-known and less familiar works, the contributors to this volume explore some of the universal experiences of human passion: romantic love, seduction, parental affection, child-like wonder, obsession, indignation, melancholic apathy. A methodological concern links the different sections of the volume: is it possible to trace the vicissitudes of human passion through time and space? This question finds a response in the comparative approach, which captures the complexity of human passions through different periods and cultures. Comparative literary analysis, in combination with philosophical, psychological, sociological and psychoanalytic inquiry, enables the contributors to this volume to map some of the passions that have been fascinating writers for thousands of years and that continue to shape our stories and our lives.
Full Product Details
Author: Florian Mussgnug ,
Simona Corso ,
Beth Guilding
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd
Edition: New edition
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.370kg
ISBN: 9781787071216
ISBN 10: 1787071219
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 31 January 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
«By putting the ancient and modern classics in dialogue with contemporary artistic production, through a wide range of literary forms and genres and within the rich frame of the philosophical and theoretical debate on passions, Narrating the Passions draws attention to stylistic, thematic and narratological aspects of the theme as well as to its function in the economy of the work and in the authorial poetics. It offers important literary perspectives to those who want to deepen and extend the debate on the theme to other literatures and arts, but also to those who are interested in the study of the single authors and in the methodological approaches proposed.» (Claudia Cao, Le Simplegadi Vol. XVI/2018)
By putting the ancient and modern classics in dialogue with contemporary artistic production, through a wide range of literary forms and genres and within the rich frame of the philosophical and theoretical debate on passions, Narrating the Passions draws attention to stylistic, thematic and narratological aspects of the theme as well as to its function in the economy of the work and in the authorial poetics. It offers important literary perspectives to those who want to deepen and extend the debate on the theme to other literatures and arts, but also to those who are interested in the study of the single authors and in the methodological approaches proposed. (Claudia Cao, Le Simplegadi Vol. XVI/2018)
Author Information
Simona Corso is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Roma Tre. Beth Guilding is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.
