Affective Atmospheres in the House of Usher
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Affective Atmospheres in the House of Usher. / Brink, Dennis Meyhoff.
I: Journal of the Short Story in English, Bind 2016, Nr. 66, 2016, s. 103-127.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Affective Atmospheres in the House of Usher
AU - Brink, Dennis Meyhoff
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Emotional intensities do not only pertain to the ‘inner life’ of individuals; they are also to be found, as the saying goes, ‘in the air,’ i.e. as shared atmospheres that envelope and affect us. Such affective atmospheres are omnipresent in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). The house in the story is not only enshrouded in an atmosphere of its own; the entire plot is focused on the ways in which this atmosphere affects the characters. Informed by these recent theories on affect, the essay analyzes Poe’s short story and proposes a number of new concepts for affect theory.
AB - Emotional intensities do not only pertain to the ‘inner life’ of individuals; they are also to be found, as the saying goes, ‘in the air,’ i.e. as shared atmospheres that envelope and affect us. Such affective atmospheres are omnipresent in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). The house in the story is not only enshrouded in an atmosphere of its own; the entire plot is focused on the ways in which this atmosphere affects the characters. Informed by these recent theories on affect, the essay analyzes Poe’s short story and proposes a number of new concepts for affect theory.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Affect theory
KW - Atmospheres
KW - Short story
KW - Edgar Allan Poe
KW - Genre theory
KW - Peter Sloterdijk
KW - Theodor W. Adorno
KW - Sara Ahmed
KW - Affective emission
KW - Affective possession
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2016
SP - 103
EP - 127
JO - Journal of the Short Story in English
JF - Journal of the Short Story in English
SN - 0294-0442
IS - 66
ER -
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