猖獗を極める「情動」（affect）」研究とテクスト読解の実践はどのように接続できるか？　文学、美術批評、映画、パフォーマンス、批評理論、レトリックを結ぶ共有の地平へ。This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in literary, film, and art criticism, as well as in critical theory, rhetoric, performance studies, and aesthetics.