Mood and Trope: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

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In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect because it resides there not in speaking about feelings, but in the way of speaking itself.

Engaging a quartet of modern philosophers--Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Deleuze--Brenkman explores...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022667326X

ISBN13:9780226673264

Release Date:January 2020

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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