Klappentext A collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity. Zusammenfassung Brings together the author's explorations of emotion and expression. This work also offers "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought!" and in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis! speech-act theory! Western Buddhism! and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion."

Autorentext

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of numerous books including A Dialogue on Love and Epistemology of the Closet. Her books Tendencies; Fat Art, Thin Art, a book of poetry; Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction; and Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (coedited with Adam Frank) are published by Duke University Press.

Klappentext

"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick writes with intense precision, and yet her work directs us toward the domain where meaning is music, unquantifiable, enigmatic, nonlinguistic. If the performative speech act, with all its relation to norms and laws, is central to the reception of her work in queer theory, then the performativity of knowledge beyond speech--aesthetic, bodily, affective--is its real topic."--Lauren Berlant, author of "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City"

Zusammenfassung
Brings together the author's explorations of emotion and expression. This work also offers "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," and in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion."

Inhalt

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Interlude, Pedagogic 27

1. Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel 35
2. Around the Performative: Periperformative Vicinities in Nineteenth-Century Narrative 67
3. Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (Written with Adam Frank) 93
4. Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You 123
5. Pedagogy of Buddhism 153
   Works Cited 183
   Index 189