Ernst van Alphen, Ph.D. (1988), University of Utrecht, is Professor of Literary studies at the University of Leiden. His most recent books are Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices (2018) and Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (2014).Tomaš Jirsa, Ph.D. (2012), Charles University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature at Palacký University Olomouc. He has published books and articles on the relations between modern literature and the visual arts, media theory, and the affective aesthetics of music videos.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Mapping Affective OperationsErnst van Alphen and Tomáš JirsaPART 1Triggering the Affects1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s DiaryMaria Boletsi2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-RealismPietro Conte3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural StudiesJan Slaby4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a ToroidEugenie Brinkema5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without QualitiesAnne Fleig and Matthias LüthjohannPART 2Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great WarTomáš Jirsa7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated PornographySusanna Paasonen8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of SensationErnst van AlphenPART 3Affects as Triggers9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political StrategyMieke Bal10 Affect Is the MediumChristiane Voss11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic WritingBernd Herzogenrath12 The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue BraChristina Riley13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic DissolveEliza SteinbockName Index

"The major strengths of How to Do Things with Affects [...] are the multidisciplinary exemplification of a very general schema and the refinement of what exactly is meant by the stylish phrase, 'to restore agency to form.' Scholars working to recuperate literature and art as suitable objects of inquiry in affect studies will find several essays here that bolster that effort. All in all, if something of a formalist turn is underway in affect theory, How to Do Things with Affects [...] is an enriching volume that can serve as an introduction to that turn or an abundant development of it.- Stephanie Amon, Afterimage (2020) 47 (2): 93–96.

Ernst van Alphen, Ph.D. (1988), University of Utrecht, is Professor of Literary studies at the University of Leiden. His most recent books are Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices (2018) and Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (2014).Tomaš Jirsa, Ph.D. (2012), Charles University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature at Palacký University Olomouc. He has published books and articles on the relations between modern literature and the visual arts, media theory, and the affective aesthetics of music videos.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Mapping Affective OperationsErnst van Alphen and Tomáš JirsaPART 1Triggering the Affects1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s DiaryMaria Boletsi2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-RealismPietro Conte3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural StudiesJan Slaby4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a ToroidEugenie Brinkema5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without QualitiesAnne Fleig and Matthias LüthjohannPART 2Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great WarTomáš Jirsa7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated PornographySusanna Paasonen8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of SensationErnst van AlphenPART 3Affects as Triggers9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political StrategyMieke Bal10 Affect Is the MediumChristiane Voss11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic WritingBernd Herzogenrath12 The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue BraChristina Riley13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic DissolveEliza SteinbockName Index

"The major strengths of How to Do Things with Affects [...] are the multidisciplinary exemplification of a very general schema and the refinement of what exactly is meant by the stylish phrase, 'to restore agency to form.' Scholars working to recuperate literature and art as suitable objects of inquiry in affect studies will find several essays here that bolster that effort. All in all, if something of a formalist turn is underway in affect theory, How to Do Things with Affects [...] is an enriching volume that can serve as an introduction to that turn or an abundant development of it.- Stephanie Amon, Afterimage (2020) 47 (2): 93–96.

Ernst van Alphen, Ph.D. (1988), University of Utrecht, is Professor of Literary studies at the University of Leiden. His most recent books are Failed Images: Photography and Its Counter-Practices (2018) and Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (2014).Tomaš Jirsa, Ph.D. (2012), Charles University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Literature at Palacký University Olomouc. He has published books and articles on the relations between modern literature and the visual arts, media theory, and the affective aesthetics of music videos.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Mapping Affective OperationsErnst van Alphen and Tomáš JirsaPART 1Triggering the Affects1 Reading Irony through Affect: the Non-Sovereign Ironic Subject in C.P. Cavafy’s DiaryMaria Boletsi2 (An)Aesthetics of Affect: the Case of Hyper-RealismPietro Conte3 Relational Affect: Perspectives from Philosophy and Cultural StudiesJan Slaby4 (Nearly) Nothing to Express : Horror : some Tread : a ToroidEugenie Brinkema5 Integrating Affect and Language: Essayism as an Affective Practice in Robert Musil’s The Man Without QualitiesAnne Fleig and Matthias LüthjohannPART 2Sensations, Resonances, and Transformations6 Affective Disfigurations: Faceless Encounters between Literary Modernism and the Great WarTomáš Jirsa7 Monstrous Resonances: Affect and Animated PornographySusanna Paasonen8 Reading for Affects: Francis Bacon and the Work of SensationErnst van AlphenPART 3Affects as Triggers9 Affectively Effective: Affect as an Artistic-Political StrategyMieke Bal10 Affect Is the MediumChristiane Voss11 Et in Academia Ego: Affect and Academic WritingBernd Herzogenrath12 The Arab Spring’s Stranger: the Affective Media Phenomenon of The Girl in the Blue BraChristina Riley13 Affective Exchange in Portraiture: to Follow J. Jackie Baier into the Photographic DissolveEliza SteinbockName Index

"The major strengths of How to Do Things with Affects [...] are the multidisciplinary exemplification of a very general schema and the refinement of what exactly is meant by the stylish phrase, 'to restore agency to form.' Scholars working to recuperate literature and art as suitable objects of inquiry in affect studies will find several essays here that bolster that effort. All in all, if something of a formalist turn is underway in affect theory, How to Do Things with Affects [...] is an enriching volume that can serve as an introduction to that turn or an abundant development of it.- Stephanie Amon, Afterimage (2020) 47 (2): 93–96.