Alexa Weik Von Mossner: 2 books
Affective Ecologies
Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Affective Ecologies: Empathy*, *Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology....
Cosmopolitan Minds
Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright,...