The Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Theories of Affect and their Impact on Artistic Creation: A Study Based on Several Key Chinese Words

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Structures of Feeling 20
5. 1. Producing Affect
6. Mediashock 29
7. Parsing Affective Economies of Race, Sexuality, and Gender: The Case of ‘Nasty Love’ 40
8. Affect Image, Touch Image 50
9. Introducing Wounds: Challenging the ‘Crap Theory of Pain’ in Nikola Lezaić’s Tilva Roš 58
10. Affect, Bio-politics and the Field of Contemporary Performing Arts 66
11. Reflections on Fear as a Structure of Feeling in Large Scale Installations in Contemporary Art 74
12. 2. Affective Pasts
13. Compelling Affects / Structured Feelings: Remembering 9/11 85
14. Staging Emotions: On Configurations of Emotional Selfhood, Gendered Bodies, and Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century 98
15. Nostalgia and Nostophobia: Emotional Memory in Joseph Roth and Herta Müller 116
16. ‘Affects as Stabilizers of Memory’? 124
17. “The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heart”: The Narrative (Re)Construction of Emotions in John Banville’s The Sea 132
18. 3. Affective Thinking
19. Affect and Feminist Methodology, Or What Does It Mean to be Moved? 147
20. The Curious Case of Affective Hospitality: Curiosity, Affect, and Pierre Klossowski’s Laws of Hospitality 159
21. “What Can This Sorrow Be?”: Elegiac Affectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room 169
22. “One Thing Melts into Another”: Unanimism, Affect, and Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves 178
23. Towards a New Thinking on Humanism in Fernand Deligny’s Network 187
24. 4. Circulating Affect
25. Sympathetic Mobilisation 199
26. A Strategic Romance? 216
27. Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Video Blogs: On the Aesthetic-Affective Dimension of Individual Fertility Projects on YouTube 226
28. Articulations of Well-being in Images of Beauty and Health 235
29. How to meet the ‘Strange Stranger’: A Sketch for an Affective Biophilia 243
30. The Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Theories of Affect and their Impact on Artistic Creation: A Study Based on Several Key Chinese Words 252
31. Index 265
32. Names 267