TY - BOOK ID - 3545305 TI - Affect and American literature in the age of neoliberalism PY - 2015 SN - 9781107095229 9781316155035 9781107479227 1107095220 1316246868 1316256332 1316237419 1316235521 1316250652 131625254X 1107479223 1316254445 1316248763 131615503X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Affect (Psychologie) in de literatuur KW - Affect (Psychology) in literature KW - Affectivité (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Emoties in de literatuur KW - Emotions dans la littérature KW - Emotions in literature KW - American literature KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - Neoliberalism KW - 20th century KW - Auster, Paul KW - Yamashita, Karen Tei KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Marcus, Ben KW - Millet, Lydia KW - McCarthy, Cormac KW - Powers, Richard KW - Franzen, Jonathan KW - Affect (Psychology) in literature. KW - American literature. KW - Emotions in literature. KW - Gefühl KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Literatur. KW - Literature and society. KW - Neoliberalism. KW - Neoliberalismus. KW - American KW - General. KW - History KW - 1900-2099. KW - USA. KW - United States. KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Neo-liberalism KW - Liberalism KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3545305 AB - Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ben Marcus, Lydia Millet, and others who stage experiments in the relationship between feeling and form, Smith argues for the centrality of a counter-tradition in contemporary literature concerned with impersonal feelings: feelings that challenge the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self. ER -