The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity.
- Author / Editor
- Kao, Wan-Chuan.
The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity.
- Published
- Stephen Ahern, ed. Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice: A Feel for the Text (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 25-43.
- Description
- Describes "premodern theories of affect rooted in humoral theory and faculty psychology," and explores the affects of wonder and shame in FranT as well as its queered futurity, focusing on Aurelius's brother, who occupies "the position of the fourth-person singular" and the "space of singular vitality," and who "offers wonder as a mode of maximum attention that queers thinking and feeling."
- Contributor
- Ahern, Stephen, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale