... of the Shrew The Tempest scepticism philosophy comedy tragedy Stanley Cavell emotions jealousy witchcraft cuckold marriage This chapter challenges the intrinsic connection Stanley Cavell posits between philosophical scepticism and tragedy in Shakespeare’s plays by expanding on his suggestion...

... in the intensity of mourning that Strategius seeks to induce in his readers. For he was involved in an economy of emotional expression that also helped to shape, maintain and manage an emotional community. Through an examination of this account the aim of this contribution is: a) to survey the sort of emotions...

...This chapter introduces the overall methodology and theoretical approach taken in the book, explaining the significance of the idea of the outsider in modernism. It then outlines the idea of the geographical emotions of modernism (drawing upon a term first coined by the writer Bryher...

...This chapter considers journals produced by units or regiments during the First World War as affective objects, building on histories of human emotions and theories of the periodical as a distinct material form and publication format. It argues that the transdisciplinary lens provided by histories...

... and technology. Second, it discusses how literature looks at portrait photographs. It argues that the writings of Proust, Kafka and Woolf uncover the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs and show how the modernist generation tried to come to terms with technical images and mediated faces...

... discussions of why male and female missionaries did what they did by turning to emotions. It then makes some speculations regarding the ‘affective lives’ of mission hospitals. It does so through an especial reference to the Kerman and Yazd hospitals. More precisely, it highlights the promise of emotions...

... who would become fellow sons of God with Christ so as to rule with him and even judge angels. Paul thus deals morally with ordinary sinful people, but ones becoming divine. Teachings such as to crucify the flesh with its emotions and desires is not morality for ordinary humans. Thesis one: Paul’s...

... melodrama of the 1940s and American film melodrama of the 1950s. Each tradition and its relevance to our understanding of Tulio is explored in terms of five crucial aspects of melodrama: pathos, overwrought emotions, moral polarisation, non-classical narrative structure and sensationalism. melodrama Singer...

...This chapter argues for a reconsideration of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Brechtian aesthetics from the point of view of his engagement with the emotions. It looks at Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant to supplement...

...Both in real life and in literature, tears and laughter only rarely carry an ambiguous message: usually tears express sorrow, and laughter joy. This chapter investigates whether this is also the case in Byzantine texts, focusing on texts where doubts about the emotional meaning of these bodily...

...This chapter reviews the aims and achievements of the volume. The volume’s contributors confront phenomena that are universal among humans and more or less confined to our species But the meaning and even perhaps the emotional content underlying these universal phenomena are often, and to varying...

...This book utilises criticism to cover the following: evaluation, explanation, self-expression, and a way of organising the emotions. By evaluation, it means how works are judged; by explanation, it means how they are determined to be genuine, how they are interpreted, glossed, and put into context...

... Jebrayil Kelbajar Qubatly Zangelan Artsakh Berdzor Sahakyan Bako restitution European Court of Human Rights Gulistan village Bosnia Armenia Azerbaijan Nagorny Karabakh Displacement Ethnic cleansing Emotions Affective dispositions Restitution In 2007 Elmira, an Azerbaijani woman living...

.... Although the cases of Romulus and Brutus, who respectively killed a brother and had sons executed, are extreme, their refusal to show grief highlights the restraints placed on ideal male behaviour. Later Romans show extreme discomfort with the killings and the non-emotional reactions to them, which...

... these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in the everyday life and ritual of Greek communities, and what range of emotions do they entail? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music? What happens when laughter and tears slip...

... chapters, it covers the following topics: his formative influences; film analysis and the symbolic; Thierry Kuntzel and the rise of video art; arrested images and “the between-images”; spectators, dispositifs, and the cinematic body; hypnosis, emotions and animality. Part 3 concludes...

... Antonio Simmel Georg Truffaut François Aumont Jacques Dubois Philippe Fairfax Daniel Gerbi Antonello Münsterberg Hugo Descartes René Raymond Bellour the end of cinema the dispositif the embodied spectator cinema and the emotions Francesco Casetti La Querelle des dispositifs moving-image...

...This chapter provides an overview of research on body language, gesture and emotion in connection with tears and laughter, and an account of its application in previous scholarship to ancient Greek literature, in order to assess the potential for extending these studies to Byzantium...