Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

209 Pages·2003·0.779 MB·English

by  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

TouchingFeeling
EditedbyMichèleAinaBarale,
JonathanGoldberg,MichaelMoon,
andEveKosofskySedgwick

Touching Feeling
Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
eve kosofsky sedgwick
duke university press
Durham&London
2003
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contents
Acknowledgments.......................................................xi
Introduction ..............................................................1
Interlude,Pedagogic.................................................... 27
1.Shame,Theatricality,andQueerPerformativity:
HenryJames’sTheArtoftheNovel........................................35
2.AroundthePerformative:PeriperformativeVicinitiesin
Nineteenth-CenturyNarrative.......................................... 67
3.ShameintheCyberneticFold:ReadingSilvanTomkins
(WrittenwithAdamFrank)..............................................93
4.ParanoidReadingandReparativeReading,or,You’reSoParanoid,
YouProbablyThinkThisEssayIsAboutYou...........................123
5.PedagogyofBuddhism...............................................153
WorksCited ............................................................183
Index................................................................... 189