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OverviewThe ""Particulars of Rapture"" proposes treating affects in adverbial rather than in adjectival terms, emphasizing the way in which text and paintings shape distinct affective states. Such an emphasis places the manner in which artwork acts upon the emotions central to the quality of the resulting affect. And that emphasis in turn enables Altieri to show how a more general expressivist model for establishing and assessing values can compete with perspectives based on rationality. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles AltieriPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780801441547ISBN 10: 0801441544 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 08 December 2003 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews"""At least since his startlingly original, philosophically astute Act and Quality, Altieri has been recognized as an American theorist of the first order. Any reader of Particulars of Rapture will see why, in the care and finesse of his argument. Its enterprise too is worthy of him, since he puts forth an argument largely original within the philosophical as well as the literary-critical literature... Anyone who cares about the philosophical understanding of the affects should, I urge, read The Particulars of Rapture. Anyone who cares about the role of affects as we encounter artworks should include the books to be read.""-Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Contemporary Literature, v. 46 no. 1, Spring 2005 ""Charles Altieri is one of our greatest analysts of modernism. In his previous books he has emphasized modernist writing's cognitive and ethical aims. Now, in The Particulars of Rapture, he turns his attention to art in general, and to art's expression of intense emotions. The result is a book of ecstatic theorizing about poetry, painting, and fiction. As rapturous as it is rigorously philosophical, this work is Altieri's best ever and deserves to be widely read.""-Robert L. Caserio, Head, Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University and author of The Novel in England 1900-1950: History and Theory ""In challenging a sharp dichotomy between cognition and 'mere' feeling with an unprecedentedly rich and careful phenomenology of affects and their roles in our lives, Charles Altieri makes manifest how we can and do become deeply engaged in the enterprises of art as open explorations of possible modes of selfhood. It is faithful to Altieri's argument to say that I found myself absorbed in it-caught up in sharing in his own exemplary trajectories of understanding, feeling, and imagination.""-Richard Eldridge, author of On Moral Personhood and The Persistence of Romanticism ""The Particulars of Rapture lays the groundwork for thinking in truly complex ways about the emotions. Charles Altieri begins by clarifying the relations among feelings, moods, emotions and passions and goes on to evaluate theories of the emotions in a range of disciplines-all the while refusing any simple antinomies between emotion and reason or affect and cognition. He gives close attention to the details of emotional experiences within, and in response to, works of art and literature and shows the passions as an ever-emergent resource of identity. If understanding the emotions, rather than simply undergoing them, can make us happy, this book will bring happiness to many readers.""-Susan Stewart, University of Pennsylvania" The Particulars of Rapture lays the groundwork for thinking in truly complex ways about the emotions. Charles Altieri begins by clarifying the relations among feelings, moods, emotions and passions and goes on to evaluate theories of the emotions in a range of disciplines all the while refusing any simple antinomies between emotion and reason or affect and cognition. He gives close attention to the details of emotional experiences within, and in response to, works of art and literature and shows the passions as an ever-emergent resource of identity. If understanding the emotions, rather than simply undergoing them, can make us happy, this book will bring happiness to many readers. Susan Stewart, University of Pennsylvania The Particulars of Rapture lays the groundwork for thinking in truly complex ways about the emotions. Charles Altieri begins by clarifying the relations among feelings, moods, emotions and passions and goes on to evaluate theories of the emotions in a range of disciplines-all the while refusing any simple antinomies between emotion and reason or affect and cognition. He gives close attention to the details of emotional experiences within, and in response to, works of art and literature and shows the passions as an ever-emergent resource of identity. If understanding the emotions, rather than simply undergoing them, can make us happy, this book will bring happiness to many readers. -Susan Stewart, University of Pennsylvania Author InformationCharles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects, also from Cornell, and Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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