...D. H. Lawrence’s oft-quoted complaint that ‘we have no language for the feelings’ prompts this chapter’s exploration of the extent to which the abundant musical references in his writing suggest how music as a medium might bridge this perceived lacuna in language. His essay ‘The Novel...

...This chapter focuses on the main contents and themes developed in the blog. Here, the body is identified as the recurring theme in blogger’s identity construction. Indeed, the blog is conceived as an attempt at recollecting the scattered pieces of the body, as it allows the description of feelings...

...This chapter explores the acceptable version of scepticism that is embodied in the figure of Hamlet. Ophelia's folklore is an anthropomorphicisation of nature and at the same time an affirmation of the ‘objective’ existence of perennial human feelings. Hamlet is the fictional equivalent...

...In an interview with Mary Cantwell in 1975, Jean Rhys denied that her fiction was thinly veiled autobiography, although, she added, “the feelings are always mine.” This essay argues that many of the feelings that Rhys explores in her fiction constellate around the shame affect, an affect...

... television programmes such as Wife Swap seek legitimacy through a suggestion that they play a deeper pedagogic role: they invite us, the audience, to reflect on our intimate feelings and relationships through an empathetic engagement with the participants. Using devices such as the 'video...

... feelings’, it reads the text’s refusal of compassion and intimacy as a radical rejection of an enduring predicament: an affective-political regime of resilience by which capitalism uses intimate relations and positive emotions to prevent class conflict and socio-economic equality. compassion precarity...

.... Things and feelings are both constructed in the same system. That forces subjectivism out of the scene and materialism prevailing as matter is simply what matters. For Whitehead beauty is about both mutual adaptation and patterned contrasts, about massiveness and intensity, about smoothness and roughness...

...This chapter considers the connection between physical feeling and literary experience, captured in the term sensation. Some experiences of literary reading can feature actual physical responses, such as laughter, chuckling, smiling, smirking, or shivering, hairs-prickling, catching of breath...

...This chapter considers the nature of our identification with and attachment to the other in friendship. It examines the nature of the choice we make in befriending another person by reviewing philosophical literature on these topics, and argues that to identify with a friend is to associate or feel...