Introduction: Affect and Texts: Contemporary Inquiry in Historical Context

Wehrs, Donald R.

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“…Being turns into Dasein through an active engagement with others. More recent studies show that the phenomenology of many human experiences prove that the affect and consciousness cannot be separated (Miller, 2017;Wehrs, 2017). This implies that our interpretation of a literary text is a sort of affect that is inseparable from how we respond to this text.…”

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The Textual vs the Contextual: A Heideggerian Reading of Walid Saif’s Poem ‘Love Again’

Ibrahim,

Alkhawaja,

Yaseen

2024

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This article reads Love Again (1992), the last poem written by contemporary Palestinian poet Walid Saif based on Heidegger’s concept of the Dasein as detailed in Being and Time and his concept of art as detailed in “The Origin of the Work of Art” as well as in other of his works. In Love Again “togetherness,” which is the essence of the Dasein, dissolves completely into the kind of being of “the Others”. Heidegger’s definition of “the truth of being” has the tendency of combining two contesting groups of theories: the first is a modernist group that advocates an intrinsic/textual approach to read literary texts in light of new criticism and other formalist schools. The second is a group that advocates a contextual/extrinsic/political approach to read literary texts like new historicism, postcolonialism and others. A Heideggerian reading of Saif’s poem debunks the modernist claim that a detachable aesthetic experience can safeguard the poem’s “historical permanence” and transcend its political context. Unlike formalists of his time, Heidegger was not concerned with the tension that emerged between the above two groups since he took both the extrinsic and intrinsic elements of a literary work as indispensable elements towards exploring the literary work. Furthermore, the above tension does not seem to be part of Heidegger’s consciousness.

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Section: Saif's and Heidegger's Phenomenologymentioning

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The Textual vs the Contextual: A Heideggerian Reading of Walid Saif’s Poem ‘Love Again’

Ibrahim,

Alkhawaja,

Yaseen

2024

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“…Unlike poststructuralists' argument about the dominant role of language, Massumi, Guattari and Deleuze propose that people are first affected by things (human or nonhuman), and then, language comes to describe the way we are moved by affects. In the introduction to The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, Donald R. Wehrs (2017) argues that ""affect theory," unlike other forms of interdisciplinary theorizing and research, tends to accord "affect" a role akin to that played by language in 1970s poststructuralist theory and by decentered or resistant subjectivity in 1980s-1990s political criticism." (p: 3).…”

Section: Affect Theorymentioning

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“Hope” in Nada Jarrar’s an Unsafe Haven: Sisyphean and Cruel

Abdel Khaleq,

Salman

2023

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Objectives: This study aims at examining the portrayal of hope through the lens of Affect theory. The objective of this study is to examine the way that hope motivates the characters of the novel to behave. The study also aims at examining how hope as an emotion does not bring about an optimistic outlook in the world of the novel, but rather creates disillusionment and pessimism. Methods: This paper relies on affect theory particularly the works of Sara Ahmad’s “happy objects” and Lauren Berlant’s concept of “cruel optimism” in showing how hope in Jarrar’s novel is both an object of happiness and a source of misery for the characters of the novel. Results: These results of this study show that studying the notion of hope that the characters seek in concepts and ideas such as marriage, love, and revolutions leads to what we would like to call a “Sisyphean” hope that further leads to disillusionment and discouragement. This hope we argue is not only “Sisyphean,” it is “cruel” because it is both futile and unattainable. Conclusion: We conclude that the effect of hope is concurrently a source of optimism for a better future and Sisyphean in its cruelty as it leads to nothing but agony.

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Literaturwissenschaftliche Emotionsforschung

Winko¹

2019

Emotionen

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Introduction: Affect and Texts: Contemporary Inquiry in Historical Context

Cited by 19 publications

References 140 publications

The Textual vs the Contextual: A Heideggerian Reading of Walid Saif’s Poem ‘Love Again’

The Textual vs the Contextual: A Heideggerian Reading of Walid Saif’s Poem ‘Love Again’

“Hope” in Nada Jarrar’s an Unsafe Haven: Sisyphean and Cruel

Literaturwissenschaftliche Emotionsforschung

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