TY - GEN AB - 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. AU - Flatley, Jonathan, CN - PS214 DO - 10.4159/9780674036963 DO - doi ID - 1478397 JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 KW - American literature KW - American literature KW - Melancholy in literature. KW - Melancholy KW - Modernism (Literature). KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory LA - eng LA - In English. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674036963 N2 - 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. SN - 9780674036963 T1 - Affective Mapping :Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism / TI - Affective Mapping :Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674036963 ER -