Paperback. Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy. The book begins with an overview of Tomkins relationship to both traditional psychoanalysis and theories of human motivation and emotion, before considering tragedy via case studies of Oedipus, Hamlet, and Death of a Salesman. Aligning Affect-Script theory with literary genre studies, this text explores what motivates fictional characters within the closed conditions of their imagined worlds and how we as an audience relate to and understand fictional characters as motivated humans. Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy (Paperback)
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham
Publication Date: 2019
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3030069281
ISBN 13: 9783030069285
Binding: Paperback
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Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins’ Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy. The book begins with an overview of Tomkins’ relationship to both traditional psychoanalysis and theories of human motivation and emotion, before considering tragedy via case studies of Oedipus, Hamlet, and Death of a Salesman. Aligning Affect-Script theory with literary genre studies, this text explores what motivates fictional characters within the closed conditions of their imagined worlds and how we as an audience relate to and understand fictional characters as motivated humans.

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Duncan A. Lucas is Professor of Communications in the Department of Liberal Studies at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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