Dr%20Diana%20Leca: List of publications

If such inert characters are so alarming, it is partly because emotion itself has long been wedded to movement. Since antiquity, as Terada affirms, the prevailing trope organizing our understanding of emotion has been expression: "something lifted from a depth to the surface" (11). A cousin of "tone," which Richards describes as a speaker's "attitude to his listener" (182), feeling is a more general orientation toward a state of affairs: "We have an attitude towards it, some special direction, bias, or accentuation of interest towards it, some personal flavour" (181). According to Elton, James's efforts to "cover any violence in the transition" through a shift in perspective to Densher is unsuccessful. [...]some critics, including Sedgwick, have designated Kate's plot an "obsession," pointing to her "unflagging intentness" and the "fierceness of her focus on maintaining the triangular choreographies involving Maud and Milly" (92).