- Introduction: Melancholize
- Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling
- Affect and Emotion
- Mood (Stimmung)
- Structure of Feeling
- 1. Modernism and Melancholia
- Modernity and Loss
- Melancholia’s History
- Freud on Melancholia and Loss: Shadow and Precipitate
- Transference; or, Affects in Psychoanalysis
- Walter Benjamin: Melancholy as Method
- 2. Affective Mapping
- 3. Reading into Henry James: Allegories of the Will to Know in The Turn of the Screw
- “Reading Into”
- Lost; or, How Autonomy Can Be Depressing
- On the Use and Misuse of Ghosts for Life
- 4. “What a Mourning”: Propaganda and Loss in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk
- Sam Hose and the Turn to Propaganda
- Problem
- “The Shadow”: Double Consciousness as Collective Melancholia
- Du Bois contra Wagner
- Shadows of Echoes: The Musical Epigraphs
- Echo
- 5. Andrei Platonov’s Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur
- The Wooden Frying Pan versus the Wisdom of the Fish
- “I Am Like It”
- The Eunuch of the Soul
- “Mutual Futile Attractions”
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Affective Mapping
Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
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Publication Date: 11/28/2008
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