Form and Emotion in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 9
4. Writing Emotions/Reading Emotions
5. Emotions and the Process of Writing 17
6. The Affective Value of Fiction Presenting and Evoking Emotions 29
7. The Author – “Specialize[d] in Having Fun”? Cognitive Theories of Emotion and Literary Studies in the Context of Two Interviews with Michael Stavarič 55
8. Emotions and/in Religion Reading Sigmund Freud, Rudolph Otto, and William James 77
9. Emotions Mediated
10. Autism, Love, and Writing in and around Russian Literature On Feeling, Non-Feeling and Writing as a Communicative Medium to Express Emotions 99
11. Riding Emotions The Motorcycle as a Vehicle of Political E/Motions in Rachel Kushner’s Novel The Flamethrowers 123
12. “[…] which approximates ‘I love you’.” Jonathan Safran Foer’s Punctuation of Emotions 137
13. Form and Emotion in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower 159
14. The Intermediality of Emotion Representations of Emotionality and Fear in YouTube Vlogs and Beyond 175
15. Emotions on Stage and in Literary Texts
16. “’Tis Magic, Magic that Hath Ravished Me” Passionate Conjuring in Doctor Faustus and The Devil’s Charter 197
17. Passionate Writing The Rhythms of Jealousy in Early Modern English Texts and Drama 215
18. When the Author Is Not the Author of Passions J.J. Engel’s Herr Lorenz Stark and the Pathognomy of Style 233
19. How to Study Emotion Effects in Literature Written Emotions in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” 247
20. Posthuman Nostalgia? Re-Evaluating Human Emotions in Michel Houellebecq’s La possibilité d’une île .. 265
21. Writing Wounds
22. Writing Disgust, Writing Realities The Complexity of Negative Emotions in Émile Zola’s Nana 277
23. Breaking the Ice, Freezing the Laughter Authorial Empathy, Reader Response, and the Kafkaesque Poetics of Guilt and Shame 295
24. Hiding One’s Feelings ‘Emotionless’ Rhetoric in Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews and Peter Weiss’s Die Ermittlung 311
25. Love under Threat The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga 347
26. AUTHORS 379