Abstract
This article explores the possibility of reading literary texts through affect, taking as samples extracts from the poetry of Miguel Hernandez and Alberto Mendez’s Los girasoles ciegos. The argument draws on the ideas of Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler and on recent work on affect and mirror neurons. It proposes that an affective reading of literary texts can support the claims of theorists, from John Dewey to Timothy O’Leary and Jenefer Robinson, that literary texts can have an impact on the reader as subject and that this process, in turn, can contribute to the development of the democratic subject.
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