How Are We Feeling?: Affect and/in Contemporary Literature and Culture

3 Credits

Explores how the social, psychological, and philosophical understandings of the way we feel, and represent or evoke feeling, influence how authors use aesthetics, audience, and ethics in relation to affective states such as remorse, boredom, nostalgia, fascination, rebellion, and expectation. This course examines a selection of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, life writing, television, and film to understand how cultural texts represent the affective experiences of contemporary life.