Focus: The Affective Turn — September / October 2008

The Affective Turn

Volume 29, Number 6
September-October 2008

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Aaron D. Chandler’s “Introduction to Focus: The Affective Turn”

Margaret Ronda reviews Lauren Berlant’s The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Elizabeth Wilkinson reviews Cari M. Carpenter’s Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians

Tobias Menely reviews Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects

Elizabeth Duquette reviews Jane F. Thrailkill’s Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism

David Rogers reviews Daniel M. Gross’s The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science

Elizabeth Vogel reviews Laura R. Micciche’s Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching

Feature: Larger Than Life

Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Michael Nedo, Guy Moreton, and Alec Finlay’s Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not

Bob Blaisdell reviews A. David Moody’s Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work Volume I: The Young Genius 1885–1920

Dan Shanahan reviews David Michaelis’s Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

Book Reviews

Jeff Cassvan reviews John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems

Marcel Cornis-Pope reviews Fran Mason’s Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Daniela Hurezanu reviews Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

Barry Wallenstein reviews F. D. Reeve’s The Blue Cat Walks the Earth

Kim Herzinger reviews J. M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year

Charles Marowitz reviews Noël Coward’s The Letters of Noël Coward

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Emotional Narratives”

Scenes—Les Figues Press

From Our Own—Angela Ball reviews eds. Joy Katz and Kevin Prufer’s Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems

Volume 29 Index

LineOnLine—In the Pines, The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives, The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes: Our Autobiography, Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones, The Animal Girl, Circadian, Every Past Thing, and A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth at Nillennium