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Cosmopolitan minds : literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination / by Alexa Weik von Mossner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, (c)2014.Edition: First edition.itionDescription: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292757646
Other title:
  • Literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS374 .C676 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Introduction: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination -- 1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights -- 2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck -- 3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith -- 4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright -- 5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles -- Conclusion: (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject: "During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers -- Subject: "The book explores the role of empathy and emotion in the emergence of cosmopolitan imaginations through the works of a diverse set of American writers who during World War II and the early Cold War period lived in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It draws on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies to offer a new perspective on the affective and imaginative underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism. It argues that our emotional engagements with others --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination -- 1. Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: Kay Boyle and the Precariousness of Human Rights -- 2. Sentimental Cosmopolitanism: The Transcultural Feelings of Pearl S. Buck -- 3. Cosmopolitan Sensitivities: Bystander Guilt and Interracial Solidarity in the Work of William Gardner Smith -- 4. Cosmopolitan Contradictions: Fear, Anger, and the Transgressive Heroes of Richard Wright -- 5. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Disgust and Intercultural Horror in the Fiction of Paul Bowles -- Conclusion: (Eco-)Cosmopolitan Feelings? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers --

"The book explores the role of empathy and emotion in the emergence of cosmopolitan imaginations through the works of a diverse set of American writers who during World War II and the early Cold War period lived in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It draws on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies to offer a new perspective on the affective and imaginative underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism. It argues that our emotional engagements with others --

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