Awards

• Short-listed for Book Design | Alberta Book Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta 2021 (Canada)
• Short-listed for Book Design | Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta 2021 (Canada)

Overview

All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the world differently. Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière, Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré, Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert, Jeanette den Toonder

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Readers with a basic understanding of affect theory, as well as those who are new to the field, will find that this collection opens fascinating avenues for inquiry into the affective possibilities in Canadian literature. It presents an alternative approach to studies in literature- one that considers the integrated nature of thoughts and feelings. [Full review at https://canlit.ca/article/feeling-it-all/] -- Rachel Fernandes, Canadian Literature, Oct. 2021

The contributors show the complexity of affect and its social importance and break down assumptions about the separateness of mind and body, private and public, individual and communal. They also offer a welcome fusion of engaged theories that politicize the readings through queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, posthuman, and Indigenous perspectives.--Roxanne Rimstead, Professor, Comparative Canadian Literature, Universite de Sherbrooke Les contributions montrent la complexite de l'affect et son importance sociale et remettent en cause les prejuges sur la separation de l'esprit et du corps, du prive et du public, de l'individuel et du collectif. Elles proposent egalement une fusion bienvenue de theories engagees qui politisent les lectures a travers des perspectives queer, feministes, anticapitalistes, posthumaines, et autochtones.--Roxanne Rimstead, Professeure, Litterature canadienne comparee, Universite de Sherbrooke The contributions cover numerous fields of scholarship and include in depth discussions of many original works as well as secondary sources, making this a compelling and diverse literary panorama replete with specific and intriguing case studies.--Sarah Henzi, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Literatures, Simon Fraser University Les contributions traitent de nombreux domaines de recherche et comprennent des discussions approfondies sur de nombreuses oeuvres originales et sources secondaires, ce qui en fait un panorama litteraire captivant et varie, rempli d'etudes de cas specifiques et fascinantes.--Sarah Henzi, Professeure adjointe, Litteratures autochtones, Universite Simon Fraser

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Marie Carrière was Director of the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne at the University of Alberta for twelve years and is currently Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts. Ursula Mathis-Moser est professeure émérite au Département de langues romanes et directrice du Centre d’études canadiennes à l’Université d’Innsbruck. Kit Dobson is Professor of English at the University of Calgary. His research and teaching are concerned with literatures in Canada, transnational studies, and questions of affect and ecology.

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