Flirtations : Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction

Barbara Natalie Nagel

ISBN 10: 0823264904 / ISBN 13: 9780823264902

Edité par Fordham University Press Mai 2015, 2015

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Neuware - 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.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Flirtations : Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
• Éditeur: Fordham University Press Mai 2015
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0823264904
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780823264902
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 141 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 141 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 241 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

Barbara Natalie Nagel is an assistant professor in the Department of German at Princeton University. Her first book is Der Skandal des Literalen: Barocke Literalisierungen in Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner. She is currently working on a book project entitled "Ambiguous Aggressions: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, and Domestic Violence in Realism and Beyond." She has published articles in Law and Literature and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.

Lauren Shizuko Stone is a lecturer in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently preparing her first book, tentatively titled "The 'Small Worlds' of Childhood in Stifter, Rilke, and Benjamin."

Daniel Hoffman- Schwartz is an associate research scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His work has appeared in the Oxford Literary Review and The Dictionary of Untranslatables. He is currently at work on his first book, "Infinite Reflection on the Revolution in France: Burke, Theoretical Romanticism, and the Political."