Life and Lyricism in Contemporary Narrative; Emotion, Mood and Genre as Global Perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.30827/tn.v6i1.26869Keywords:
Globalization, Postnational, Mood, Presence, Lyricism, Poetic Narrative, Literary Studies, Emotion, Genre, World LiteratureAbstract
Global Perspectives consider the relationship between literature, language and perception, as well as how literature and language ‘do’ conflict and complicate notions of mood, emotion, and genre. Lyricism in global narratives has the ability to disrupt time and generate a further expansion of genre. With a short study on the mode of writing by Julio Llamazares and Anne Carson, this article discusses enactive forms of perception, referring to enactive experience as the way to describe a text’s capacity to activate our mental need to attend to a text, disorienting in its form or temporality, and our perception of the realities of the world, in particular, isolation and digital remove. Making a reference to Gumbrecht´s Stimmung and Deleuze´s rhizome, it considers how phenomenology of the present becomes a primordial task after globalization, and how priority is given to developing an analysis which identifies dehumanizing effects in contemporary societies.The article later refers to Martha Nussbaum´s theory of emotion and concludes by recognizing the importance of sensorial perception and emotion in literary studies in the twenty-first century.
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