Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy, performativity / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.

Contributor:

Frank, Adam J., 1967-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Series Q.

Series Q

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity.

"A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." In prose sometimes somber, often high-spirited, and always accessible and moving, Touching Feeling interrogates - through virtuoso readings of works by Henry James, J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, the psychologist Silvan Tomkins and others - emotion in many forms. What links the work of teaching to the experience of illness? How can shame become an engine for queer politics, performance, and pleasure? Is sexuality more like an affect or a drive? Is paranoia the only realistic epistemology for modern intellectuals? Ultimately, Sedgwick's unfashionable commitment to the truth of happiness propels a book as open-hearted as it is intellectually daring."--Publisher's description

Contents:

Interlude, pedagogic

Shame, theatricality, and queer performativity : Henry James's The art of the novel

Around the performative : periperformative vicinities in nineteenth-century narrative

Shame in the cybernetic fold : reading Silvan Tomkins / written with Adam Frank

Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, You're so paranoid, you probably think this essay is about you

Pedagogy of Buddhism

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.

ISBN:

9786612920769

9781282920767

1282920766

9780822384786

0822384787

OCLC:

301119534