Rhythms of Feeling in Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198868804)

Rich with unpublished material and detailed insight, Rhythms of Feeling offers a new reading of three of the most celebrated poets: Edward Lear, T.S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith. Tracing exciting lines of interplay, affinity, and influence between these writers for the first time, the book shifts the terms of critical debate on Lear, Eliot, and Smith and subtly reorients the traditional account of the genealogies of Modernism. Going beyond a biographically-framed close reading or a more general analysis framed by affect theory, the volume traces these poets' 'affective rhythms' (fits, tears, nerves) to consider the way that poetics, the mental and physical process of writing and reading, and the ebbs and flows of their emotional weather might be in dialogue. Attentive, acute, and often forensic, the book broadens its reach to contemporary writers and medical accounts of creativity and cognition. Alongside deep critical study, this volume seeks to bring emotional intelligence to criticism, finding ways of speaking lucidly and humanely about emotional and physical states that defy lucidity and stretch our sense of the human.

Author: Jasmine Jagger
ISBN-10: 0198868804
ISBN-13: 9780198868804
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.42w x 0.81d