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BL
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584190
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b413409
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| Main Entry
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Flatley, Jonathan
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| Title & Author
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Affective mapping : : melancholia and the politics of modernism /\ Jonathan Flatley
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2008
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vi, 263 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780674030787
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: 0674030788
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Modernism and melancholia -- Affective mapping -- Reading into Henry James : allegories of the will to know in The turn of the screw -- "What a mourning": propaganda and loss in W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black folk -- Andrei Platonov's revolutionary melancholia: friendship and Toska in Chevengur
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| Abstract
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"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
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James, Henry,1843-1916., Turn of the screw
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Du Bois, W. E. B., (William Edward Burghardt),1868-1963., Souls of Black folk
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Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich,1899-1951., Chevengur
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Melancholy in literature
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Melancholy-- Social aspects
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/353
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| LC Classification
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PS214.F63 2008
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