Flirtations : Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction

Barbara Natalie Nagel

ISBN 10: 0823264904 / ISBN 13: 9780823264902

Editore: 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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• Titolo: Flirtations : Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
• Editore: Fordham University Press Mai 2015
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0823264904
• ISBN 13: 9780823264902
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 141 A x 20 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 141 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 241 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz is Associated Visiting Researcher in Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

Barbara Natalie Nagel is Assistant Professor of German at Princeton University. She is the author of The Scandal of the Literal: Baroque Literalization in Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner.

Lauren Shizuko Stone is Lecturer in German at the University of Colorado, Boulder.