This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. Th

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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studi

This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard’s idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis. Taking mimesis as a crucial conceptua

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