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"Reading as Feeling" traces the "feeling rules articulated by the Fulbright Program" and internationalized American Studies (59), which sprang from the passionate pedagogy of critics like Alfred Kazin and F. O. Matthiessen, and aimed to make their international subjects feel in the right way.
The essay sketches the context of polarized emotionality and the crisis of truth characterizing current U.S. politics, centrally engaging Arlie Hochschild's concept of "feeling rules".
These scripts, or "feeling rules," guide athletes as they manage their emotions, prompting, for instance, appropriate behaviour during pregame renditions of national anthems or during postgame victory celebrations.
Such classed and racialised feeling rules require young women to perfect the performance of normalcy: they must mix self-deprecation with positivity; they must be relatably flawed but not actual 'failures'failures
The experiences described here are beyond the scope of most people's experiences of going out and Nina's account captures the tension between feeling rules and expression rules.
As evidenced by excerpts from group members' online exchanges, bereaved mothers comply with cultural feeling rules which suggest that stillbirth is a taboo subject while also desiring to challenge these rules.
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Thematically, the rebellion is pretty traditional: they like hearing that their feelings rule and that the adult world is an epic fail.
Rove is implying that an empathic person is one who lets their subjective feelings rule and that he/she uses this seeping mass of emotion to push an agenda.
Larkin deploys it to evoke a Britain which was already disappearing: an emotionally illiterate country of stifled feelings, rigid rules and families unable to speak freely.
Educate your teen about responsible sexual attitudes and behaviors, such as safer sex practices, and be honest about your own feelings and rules regarding sex.
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