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Affect and the Politics of Abstraction in British New Writing

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Affect and the Politics of Abstraction in British New Writing. / Watkinson, Philip.
Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. ed. / Mireia Aragay; Cristina Delgado-García; Martin Middeke. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 171-189.

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Watkinson, P 2021, Affect and the Politics of Abstraction in British New Writing. in M Aragay, C Delgado-García & M Middeke (eds), Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_9

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Watkinson, P. (2021). Affect and the Politics of Abstraction in British New Writing. In M. Aragay, C. Delgado-García, & M. Middeke (Eds.), Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage (pp. 171-189). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_9

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Watkinson P. Affect and the Politics of Abstraction in British New Writing. In Aragay M, Delgado-García C, Middeke M, editors, Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. p. 171-189 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58486-3_9

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Watkinson, Philip. / Affect and the Politics of Abstraction in British New Writing. Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. editor / Mireia Aragay ; Cristina Delgado-García ; Martin Middeke. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. pp. 171-189

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