Statistical Panic : Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions /

In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture's scripts for "emotional" behavior and that the ac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woodward, Kathleen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2009]
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection : 33
Temas:
Emotions in literature.
Emotions > Social aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thinking Feeling, Feeling Thinking
  • part one cultural politics, communities of feeling
  • 1 Containing Anger, Advocating Anger: Freud and Feminism
  • 2 Against Wisdom: Anger and Aging
  • 3 Racial Shame, Mass-Mediated Shame, Mutual Shame
  • 4 Liberal Compassion, Compassionate Conservatism
  • part two structures of feeling, ''new'' feelings
  • 5 Sympathy for Nonhuman Cyborgs
  • 6 Bureaucratic Rage
  • 7 Statistical Panic
  • Coda: Inexhaustible Grief
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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