What is it about?
This chapter examines the role of thought as an affective response to reading.
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Why is it important?
Our focus on the semantic content of thought elides the syntagmatic aspect of thought as affect. Understanding thought in affectual terms, opens the way to seeing content and form in relations that inform and give shape to emotions.
Perspectives
This personal account of having been affected by reading a novel by Australian author Charlotte Wood, analyses the experience through the lens of thought-as-affect.
Dr Victoria Reeve
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This page is a summary of: Contemplating Affects: The Mystery of Emotion in Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend, April 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003161424-3-3.
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