The Affective Turn
Volume 29, Number 6
September-October 2008
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Aaron D. Chandler’s “Introduction to Focus: The Affective Turn”
Tobias Menely reviews Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects
Elizabeth Vogel reviews Laura R. Micciche’s Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching
Feature: Larger Than Life
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
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”
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
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
