Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism by Rachel Greenwald S

by Rachel Greenwald

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism by Rachel Greenwald Smith Rachel Greenwald Smith s Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between contemporary American literature and politics. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita and others, Smith challenges the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description 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. Table of Contents 1. Personal and impersonal: two forms of the neoliberal novel; 2. Affect and aesthetics in 9/11 fiction; 3. Reading like an entrepreneur: neoliberal agency and textual

• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781107095229
• Condition: Fine

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