Charles Altieri is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts and Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications.

"At least since his startlingly original, philosophically astute Act and Quality, Altieri has been recognized as an American theorist of the first order. Any reader of Particulars of Rapture will see why, in the care and finesse of his argument. Its enterprise too is worthy of him, since he puts forth an argument largely original within the philosophical as well as the literary-critical literature. . . . Anyone who cares about the philosophical understanding of the affects should, I urge, read The Particulars of Rapture. Anyone who cares about the role of affects as we encounter artworks should include the books to be read."—Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Contemporary Literature, v. 46 no. 1, Spring 2005

Charles Altieri is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts and Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications.

"At least since his startlingly original, philosophically astute Act and Quality, Altieri has been recognized as an American theorist of the first order. Any reader of Particulars of Rapture will see why, in the care and finesse of his argument. Its enterprise too is worthy of him, since he puts forth an argument largely original within the philosophical as well as the literary-critical literature. . . . Anyone who cares about the philosophical understanding of the affects should, I urge, read The Particulars of Rapture. Anyone who cares about the role of affects as we encounter artworks should include the books to be read."—Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Contemporary Literature, v. 46 no. 1, Spring 2005

Charles Altieri is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which are Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts and Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications.

"At least since his startlingly original, philosophically astute Act and Quality, Altieri has been recognized as an American theorist of the first order. Any reader of Particulars of Rapture will see why, in the care and finesse of his argument. Its enterprise too is worthy of him, since he puts forth an argument largely original within the philosophical as well as the literary-critical literature. . . . Anyone who cares about the philosophical understanding of the affects should, I urge, read The Particulars of Rapture. Anyone who cares about the role of affects as we encounter artworks should include the books to be read."—Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Contemporary Literature, v. 46 no. 1, Spring 2005