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The Particulars of Rapture - An Aesthetics of the Affects (Hardcover, New)
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The Particulars of Rapture - An Aesthetics of the Affects (Hardcover, New)
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This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known
literary theorist studies the complex relationship between the
emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings on the
other. A central aim of Charles Altieri's is to rescue our
understanding of the affects from philosophical theories that
subordinate them to cognitive control and ethical judgment. Altieri
concentrates on two fundamental aspects of aesthetic experience:
the first describes how representative texts and paintings compose
intricate affective states; the second engages how we might
generalize from the values involved in the affects made articulate
by works of art. He addresses a range of affective states,
distinguishing carefully among sensations, feelings, moods,
emotions, and passions. He shows how art solicits, organizes, and
reflects upon affective energies and how many of the qualities of
the affects developed within artworks simply disappear when
observers are content with adjectival labels such as "sad,"
"angry," or "happy." "The 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.
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