@article{1478397, author = {Flatley, Jonathan, }, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478397}, title = {Affective Mapping : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism /}, abstract = {The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036963}, recid = {1478397}, pages = {1 online resource (272 p.)}, }