Literature Now offers a distinct vision of late-twentieth-and earlytwenty-first-century literary
culture. Addressing contemporary literature and the ways we understand its meaning, the …

This book explores the paradoxical productivity of the idea of the end of the novel in
contemporary fiction. It shows how this idea allows some of our most significant twenty-first …

This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith's concept of the “Affective Turn” in
contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the …

Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a
single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is …

We propose to use affect as a proxy for mood in literary texts. In this study, we explore the
differences in computationally detecting tone versus detecting mood. Methodologically we …

Recently, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would expand its digital movie-
viewing service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to include a wider range of web platforms and …

This paper maps the intersection of affect theory with literature and art through the revision of
the question of representation and its crisis, which has been central in theorizing literary and …

This paper is a methodological exploration of the origin of mood in early modern and
modern Finnish literary texts using computational methods. We discuss the pre-processing …

PROCESSES OF RACIALIZATION—THAT IS, HOW RACE IS PRODUCED IN ways that blur
the biological/cultural distinction—are linked to a particular political concept of “the human,” …

The affective turn in literary studies invites new perspectives on fictional characters'
relationships with each other and with their readers, extending and complicating traditional …