Abstract:Speaking about the emotionality of texts, how they move us, generating effects, bodily sensations, Sara Ahmed points out that it is crucial to look at the ways texts name or perform emotions, how "[n]aming emotions often involves differentiating between the subject and object of feeling" (13), which in my case is myself feeling about a text but also a character's feelings about another character. This naming emotions also entails the different ways that figures-figures of speech but also figures of characters-… Show more
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