The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects

by Charles Altieri

Book Overview

This brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex relationship between the emotions on the one side and literary works and paintings on the other. A central aim of Charles Altieri's is to rescue our understanding of the affects from philosophical theories that subordinate them to cognitive control and ethical judgment.

Altieri concentrates on two fundamental aspects of aesthetic experience:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488435
• ISBN13: 9780801488436
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher