The phrase "a structure of feeling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about emotions, cultural studies, or literary analysis to describe a collective emotional experience or sentiment within a specific context.
Example: "The novel captures a structure of feeling that resonates with the anxieties of the post-war generation."
Alternatives: "an emotional framework" or "a sentiment structure."
Religion becomes an embedded experience, a structure of feeling.
These days it's hard to open a paper without some slightly whipped-up controversy about Morrissey being a racist, but back in the mid-1980s his lyrics and persona mapped out a structure of feeling that spoke to my own floundering selfhood.
Metamodernism is not a celebration of capitalism or technology, after all, but an exploitation of each to express a structure of feeling common to our Age.
Just as early postmodernism was wild and unparseable -- and late postmodernism can never achieve escape velocity from the body of literature that always-already surrounds it -- metamodernism stands, in this moment, as a structure of feeling that is genuinely and generatively bewildering.
Because metamodernism is a cultural paradigm -- both a system of logic and a structure of feeling -- art and cultural artifacts that are produced "under its sign" are often recognizable as metamodern through their philosophy and ethos more so than their technical components.
Williams's tool for elucidating these unexpected inter-relationships is the so-called "structure of feeling" of any given period – described by his cultural studies ally, Stuart Hall, as "the way meanings and values were lived in real lives, in actual communities".
The developments in Spain since 2008 amount to what Raymond Williams called a new "structure of feeling", a shift in the lived experience of ordinary people, a new chain of demands distributed through more public, more truly democratic channels.
Homophile magazines helped not only to foment a political struggle, but also to fashion -- in Raymond Williams' terms -- a queer structure of feeling, that is, a shared perspective on and experience of the world that challenged the views taken as common sense.
Metamodernism: A paradigm, structure of feeling, system of logic, and cultural dominant in which all distances collapse into an alternately (or even jointly) scrutable and inscrutable, clear and ambiguous, all-complicit and indirect singularity whose relationship to contemporary living is a mimetic one.
What is dramatised in it is a very complex structure of feeling".
This latter area is of interest because it reveals the emergence of an ecological awareness or structure of feeling as early as the late-nineteenth century, and allows the relationship of this development to environmental policy making to be investigated because of the historical timeframe.
