Flirtations : Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction / Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone; Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagel, Barbara Natalie, Author.

Stone, Lauren Shizuko, Author.

Contributor:

Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel, Editor.

Series:

Idiom (Fordham University Press).

Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Seduction.

Flirting.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction?In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In contrast, flirtation is the game in which no one seems to gain the upper hand and no one seems to surrender. The counter-concept of flirtation has thus stood quietly to the side, never quite achieving the same prominence as that of seduction. It is this elusive (and largely ignored) territory of playing for play’s sake that is the subject of this anthology.The essays in this volume address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right. Drawing on the interdisciplinary history of scholarship on flirtation even as it re-approaches the question from a distinctly aesthetic and literary-theoretical point of view, the contributors to Flirtations thus give an account of the practice of flirtation and of the figure of the flirt, taking up the act’s relationship to issues of mimesis, poetic ambiguity, and aesthetic pleasure. The art of this poetic playfulness—often read or misread as flirtation’s “empty gesture”—becomes suddenly legible as the wielding of a particular and subtle form of nonteleological power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

“Almost Nothing; Almost Everything”: An Introduction to the Discourse of Flirtation

INTERLUDE

The Art of Flirtation: Simmel’s Coquetry Without End

“The Double- Sense of the ‘With’ ”: Rethinking Relation after Simmel

Rhetoric’s Flirtation with Literature, from Gorgias to Aristotle: The Epideictic Genre

Playing with Yourself: On the Self-Reference of Flirtation

Life Is a Flirtation: Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull

The “Irreducibly Doubled Stroke”: Flirtation, Felicity, and Sincerity

Frill and Flirtation: Femininity in the Public Space

Learning to Flirt with Don Juan

The Luxury of Self- Destruction: Flirting with Mimesis with Roger Caillois

Wartime Love Affairs and Deathly Flirtation: Freud and Caillois on Identifying with Loss

Bestiality: Mediation More Ferarum

Doing It as the Beasts Did: Intertextuality as Flirtation in Gradiva

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8232-6686-9

0-8232-6493-9

0-8232-6492-0

OCLC:

906575758