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The Rhetoric of Sincerity / ed. by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Carel Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural Memory in the Present
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts—literature, but especially the visual and performing arts—and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular representation, during a time of major religious changes. The present historical moment has much in common with that era; with its religious and cultural conflicts and major transformations in representational idioms and media. The Rhetoric of Sincerity is concerned with the ways in which the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different media and disciplines. The book focuses on the theatricality of sincerity, its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or failure of such performances.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I SINCERITY AS SUBJECTIVITY EFFECT
- 1 "Why do you tear me from Myself?": Torture, Truth, and the Arts of the Counter-Reformation
- 2 Melody and Monotone: Performing Sincerity in Republican France
- 3 The Irreconcilability of Hypocrisy and Sincerity
- 4 The Rhetoric of Justification: The Preponderance of Decisions over Rules
- 5 Must We (NOT) Mean What We Say? Seriousness and Sincerity in the Work of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell
- PART II DECLINING SINCERITY
- 6 Can the Subaltern Confess? Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the Deployment of Sexuality
- 7 Like a Dog: Narrative and Confession in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The Lives of Animals
- 8 Putting Sincerity to Work: Acquiescence and Refusal in Post-Fordist Art
- 9 When Sincerity Fails: Literatures of Migration and the Emblematic Labor of Personhood
- PART III SINCERITY AS MEDIA EFFECT
- 10 A Feeling of lnsincerity: Politics, Ventriloquy, and the Dialectics of Gesture
- 11 Derrida on Film: Staging Spectral Sincerity
- 12 Documenting September II: Trauma and the (Im)possibility of Sincerity
- 13 Being Angela Merkel
- 14 Saying Everything and Affected Self-Disclosure in the Works of Reinaldo Arenas and Hervé Guibert
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-2701-2
- OCLC:
- 1294424471
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