ENGL 11901 - After Great Pain:Aesthetics and Emotion from Sentimentality to Affect Theory

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University of Chicago

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This course explores the centrality of suffering to the production of concepts of social belonging and sovereign personhood in the United States since the migration of sentimental fiction to the United States in the 1780s and the rise of abolitionist and indigenous rights rhetoric in the 1830s. Units focus on (1) rhetorics of sentimental attachment; (2) those operating according to the logic of trauma; and (3) introduction to the facets of affect theory that look at the contemporary moment as a scene of ordinary crisis. Readings include theoretical selections (Freud, Ferenczi, Caruth, Massumi, Deleuze, Sedgwick, Butler, Seltzer, Taussig, Daphne Brooks, Peter Brooks); novels ( Uncle Tom's Cabin, Imitation of Life, The Bluest Eye, Black Hole, Survival in Auschwitz, In the Shadow of No Towers, City of Refuge); and films (Safe, When the Levees Broke). L. Berlant. Autumn.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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