Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Affect in the Scene of Writing Chapter 1 Thinking Confusion: On the Compositional Aspect of Affect Chapter 2 Expression and Theatricality, or Medium Poe Chapter 3 Maisie's Spasms: Transferential Poetics in Henry James and Wilfred Bion Chapter 4 Loose Coordinations: Theater and Thinking in Gertrude Stein Chapter 5 Vis-a-vis Television: Andy Warhol's Therapeutics Out and Across Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Adam Frank is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited, with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader, and he has written and produced two full-length recorded audiodramas.

Reviews

"This is an unusually original critical work, subtle in its appreciation of aesthetic and theoretical experimentation alike. It does what criticism should do: it exercises patience and practices openness, it amplifies the power of artistic and critical innovation, and it keeps faith with its reader." -- -Jonathan Elmer Indiana University "Paying attention is thus the hinge around which an affective poetics moves. Frank's assertion-that we can get close to that force of feeling, should we be attentive enough-beckons the reader to lean forward and listen." -- -Erin Wunker 452F "Subtle, lively, and conceptually rich, Transferential Poetics is innovative in both its critical insight and its design...This is a generous and inventive book and an important contribution to the fields of affect studies and modern poetics." -- -Julie Taylor Journal of American Studies 50.2