The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, Special Issue “The Affective Aesthetics of the Body in Pain”, 51 (4/2018). Guest editors: Luz Mar González Arias (University of Oviedo) and Monika Glosowitz (University of Silesia).
The pivotal category of affective aesthetics allows for analyses of literary texts and visual art conjoined with an important set of questions about the national, social, familial and sexual dimensions of embodiment. Affects—through artworks—function as forces which enable subjects to move and to be moved and, therefore, have the capacity to transform both individual and…