The “affective turn” is by now long established, part of a wider surge of interest in emotion playing out in a range of disciplines. In literary studies, the conversation about how affect theory might help us to interpret literature is still emerging. The goal of the present discussion is to provide a critical overview of work by scholars who draw on the insights of recent theory to read literary texts written in English. At the same time that the discussion offers an appraisal of the current state of scholarship, it also seeks to identify emerging new directions in research.

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情感理论与文学批评

“情感转向”早已确立，这是一系列学科中对情感的更广泛兴趣激增的一部分。在文学研究中，关于情感理论如何帮助我们解释文学的讨论仍在不断出现。本讨论的目的是对那些利用最新理论见解来阅读英语文学文本的学者的工作提供批判性的概述。讨论在评估当前学术状况的同时，还试图确定新兴的研究方向。