“much the way the proximity between real and virtual feeling in the concept of tone can produce anxiety for the literary theorist.” — Sianne Ngai Anxiety Literary Copy Share Image
“In fact, the shot’s cunning re-objectivization suggests just how uncertain this surveillance expert’s grasp of the visual field has perhaps been all… — Sianne Ngai Uncertain Copy Share Image
“In both cases, the difficulty lies not in the ontological difference between real emotion and virtual emotion, but rather in their proximity.” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As” — Sianne Ngai Disgust Copy Share Image
“Melville’s last published novel, The Confidence-Man (1857), a notably “talky” text that offers a useful allegory of the very” — Sianne Ngai Melville Copy Share Image
“Both are also examples of film noir, a postwar genre commonly understood (even to the point of cliché) as being aesthetically and… — Sianne Ngai Cinema Copy Share Image
“these audible demonstrations that whether the feeling is vested in abstract systems or in personal relationships, the world of the novel’s story… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“Heidegger claims, it seems fitting that Melville’s story about public exchanges facilitated by an anonymous agent becomes primarily preoccupied with how “confidence”… — Sianne Ngai Confidence Copy Share Image
“The anticathartic device of dilating the time in which any particular incident takes place thus accentuates the manner in which these uneventful… — Sianne Ngai Time Copy Share Image
“If Ugly Feelings is a bestiary of affects, in other words, it is one filled with rats and possums rather than lions,… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“—rather than those of more iconic figures such as Ahab, Othello, or Lear, my focus will be on irritation instead of anger,… — Sianne Ngai Anger Copy Share Image
“Whether in a direct or indirect manner, this Bartlebyan problem is one to which all of the following chapters will repeatedly return,… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“The Conversation to produce another highly determinate feeling—paranoia—that not coincidentally replicates the subjective/objective oscillation in its basic structure: Is the enemy out… — Sianne Ngai Communication Copy Share Image
“In other words, I mean the formal aspect of a work that has made it possible for critics of all affiliations (Marxist,… — Sianne Ngai American literature Copy Share Image
“This awkward quality might be attributed to a conspicuous avoidance of the dimension of feeling already deeply associated with “tone” and even… — Sianne Ngai Emotional Quality Copy Share Image
“[My original] theory of affect as amplification was flawed by [one] serious ambiguity. I had unwittingly assumed that in both electronic amplification… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“a highly organized and articulate set of ideas about anything. As in the case of a love affair the fit need not… — Sianne Ngai Affair Copy Share Image
“The absence of attention to this way of talking about feelings and literature not only is specific to recent literary scholarship on… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“In an equally counterintuitive fashion, affect’s distinctive function of amplifying the awareness and effects of other functions is based on its ability… — Sianne Ngai Affect Copy Share Image
“In fact, because tone is never entirely reducible to a reader’s emotional response to a text or reducible to the text’s internal… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“Indeed, as a system of exchange based on a highly codified feeling that is continually reproduced and circulated even as it cannot… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“As an affective matrix devised as a “psychological explanation” for revolutionary or political impulses, which reduces social antagonisms to deficiencies of individual… — Sianne Ngai Character Copy Share Image
“While this book makes a similar if more modest claim for the social significance of its own fundamentally ambivalent “sentiments of disenchantment”… — Sianne Ngai Beauty Copy Share Image
“On one hand, the state of being “animated” implies the most general of all affective conditions (that of being “moved” in one… — Sianne Ngai Animation Copy Share Image
“Indeed, while it is widely agreed that “emotions play roles in forms of action,”22 the feelings in this study tend to be… — Sianne Ngai Education Copy Share Image
“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“In fact, I would suggest that what each moment produces is the inherently ambiguous affect of affective disorientation in general—what we might… — Sianne Ngai Disorientation Copy Share Image
“call “stuplimity” through a literature of exhausting repetitions and permutations, paranoia through a transcription-based poetry that continually raises the question of whether… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“there is a sense in which ugly feelings can be described as conducive to producing ironic distance in a way that the… — Sianne Ngai Books Copy Share Image
“Yet the point of the Black Rapids agent’s story is precisely that an illusory panic can easily generate a “double” that is… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“For envy makes no claim whatsoever about the moral superiority of the envier, or about the “goodness” of his or her state… — Sianne Ngai Envy Copy Share Image
“Tomkins ultimately bases his theory of affect on a principle he calls “analog amplification.” He describes affect as a mechanism that magnifies… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“In other words, a positional parallelism in which sound is foregrounded as an independent feature (Nathanson, WP, 140), comes to override an… — Sianne Ngai Language Copy Share Image
“played. While this unintended crackle, generated by an overproximity between transmitter and receiver, explicitly recalls the static that appears in Thomas’ photographic… — Sianne Ngai Unintended Crackle Copy Share Image
“Aristotle have shown how the principle of mutual fear actively binds men into the contracts that support the political commonwealth, and how… — Sianne Ngai Anger Copy Share Image
“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“Even an ostensibly degree-zero affect like animatedness has a version of this subjective/objective problematic at its core—namely, the question of whether “animation”… — Sianne Ngai Animation Copy Share Image
“For just as the question of whether one’s paranoia is subjective or objective is internal to paranoia, the historically feminized and proletarianized… — Sianne Ngai Jealousy Copy Share Image
“More specifically, this book turns to ugly feelings to expand and transform the category of “aesthetic emotions,” or feelings unique to our… — Sianne Ngai Beauty Copy Share Image
“The pain receptors have evolved to make us care about injury and disease. Pain is an analog of injury in its inherent… — Sianne Ngai Pain Copy Share Image
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