The Object of His Heart
Subjectivity and Affect in Mystic Texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Libby (0000-0002-0648-5032, Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 362-371 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12319 |
| OpenAlex | W2464636744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This essay examines how attention to affect in mystic texts complicates notions of subjectivity by highlighting the relational effects of affect. Noting that recent pre‐modern scholarship has favored the history of emotion over affect studies, this essay turns instead to an investigation of the ways that affect can be discerned in historical and literary texts. Shifting attention to the way affect travels between author, text, and reader allows me to problematize the formulation of the mystic/woman as a hyper‐emotional subject and move towards an investigation of how the cultivation and repetition of affect contribute to the formation of relational communities
Affect (linguistics · Affect theory · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Mysticism · Object (grammar · Scholarship · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Communication · Computer Science · History of Emotions Research · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
Doing Emotions History
From Passions to Emotions
The Navigation of Feeling
Willful Subjects
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
“Emotion”
Worrying about Emotions in History
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion
Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Acute Melancholia
The Promise of Happiness
Religious Weeping as Ritual in the Medieval West
Introduction
The Affect Theory Reader
A thousand plateaus
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess
Parables for the Virtual
Worrying about Emotions in History
The Autonomy of Affect
The History of Emotions
Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (And Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion
The Power of Books and the Practice of Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century
Agencement/Assemblage
The Turn to Affect
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |