{"product_id":"organizing-relation-attachment-theory-and-literary-criticism-9780197805596","title":"Organizing Relation: Attachment Theory and Literary Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Theo Davis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Relation\u003c\/em\u003e investigates how attachment theory can shift major conversations in literary criticism about connection, personhood, and aesthetic experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the author's experience along with extensive scholarly research into attachment theory, somatic and relational healing, and childhood development, the book delineates the emergence of subjectivity from micro-episodes of attuned connection and the arising of attachment trauma in the absence of adequate experiences of attunement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe emergent understanding of intermittent passages in which embodied presence self-organizes in response to relational episodes prompts a reorganization of how literary studies approaches subjectivity, language, and the body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrganizing Relation\u003c\/em\u003e pursues that reorganization through a portfolio of readings in nineteenth-century American literature, in which relational turbulence provokes different experiences of power and dependency, opening up passages of dissociated chaos and of brilliant, brief connected life.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46859972804759,"sku":"9780197805596","price":10540.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197805596.webp?v=1769952256","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/organizing-relation-attachment-theory-and-literary-criticism-9780197805596","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}