Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled - Couverture souple

Cobb, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814772552 ISBN 13 : 9780814772553

Editeur : New York University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Cobb Michael

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist outside of the couple is to assume an antisocial position that is ruthlessly discouraged because being in a couple is the way most people bind themselves to the social. Singles might just be the single most reviled sexual minorities today. Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled offers a polemic account of this supremacy of the couple form, and how that supremacy blocks our understanding of the single. Michael Cobb reads the figurative language surrounding singleness as it traverses an eclectic set of literary, cultural, philosophical, psychoanalytical, and popular culture objects from Plato, Freud, Ralph Ellison, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Barack Obama, Emily Dickinson, Morrissey, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hannah Arendt to the Bible, Sex and the City, Bridget Jones' Diary, Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)", and HBO's Big Love. Within these flights of fancy, poetry, fiction, strange moments in film and video, paintings made in the desert, bits of song, and memoirs of hiking in national parks, Cobb offers an inspired, eloquent rumination on the single, which is guaranteed to spark conversation and consideration.

Revue de presse :

"Although the book is deliberately provocative, with its evocations of the couple's 'steely, enduring logic" and "toxic emotional restraints,' it's most helpful to see Cobb's radical critique not as an ode to unattached monasticism but as suggestions for how the single perspective's solitude, privacy, and freedom can open up vistas - even in the lives of the happily coupled." --Publishers Weekly, June 2012

"Searing, radical, playful, exquisite. This is singular, stunning work. Using the rhythms of banter, suggestion, and devilish claims, Cobb pits the brio, the grandeur of singleness against the deadening form of the couple. Prepare to be provoked by a book as beautiful as it is brilliant." --Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0814772552
• ISBN 13: 9780814772553
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239