Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences: Identity and the Politics of Feeling

by Kimberly Chabot Davis

Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological union of textual analysis and reception study, Chabot Davis presents case studies of audience responses. Chabot Davis argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement by moving audiences to identify emotionally with people across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557534799
• ISBN13: 9781557534798
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"