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1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism |
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Palgrave studies in affect theory and literary criticism.
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| Contents |
Preface; Notes; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Uncritically Queer-Bad Reading and the Incipiently Social; The Politics of Literary Affect; The Queerness of Experimental Literature: Fantasy and Adhesive Eroticism; The Literacy of Sexuality; Notes; Chapter 1: Naked Lust: Obscene Relationality and the Turn to Queer Experimental Literature; Queer Spectrality and the Impossibility of "Reciprocal Relation"; Giving You the Horrors: The Affective Politics of Returning it to the "White Reader"; "One Gweat Big Blob": The Phantoms of Queer Sociability |
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Between Solipsism and SocialityNotes; Chapter 2: Reading in Crisis: Queer Hermeneutics as Affective History; Beside Paranoid Reading; The Affective Relations of Deconstruction; An Allegory of Feeling in the Absence of History; The Hermeneutics of Pleasure; Queer Reading as Affective Inheritance; Notes; Chapter 3: The Languages of the Body: Becoming Unreadable in Postmodernity; Against "Deconstruction"; Sensuous Words and the Thresholds of Becoming; Queering the Author-Reader Contract; Stopping Reading; Notes; Chapter 4: Queer Exuberance: Visceral Reading and the Politics of Positive Affect |
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The Politics of Queer AffectBiopolitics and Jeanette Winterson's Visceral Aesthetics; The Queer Exuberance of Art and Lies; Why Be Normal When You Could Be Happy?; Notes; Chapter 5: "Permeable We!": Queer Theory's (Re)turn to Reading with Feeling; Queer Theory's Affective Relations; Writing Feeling Without a First Person; The Pedagogy of Permeability; The Middle Ranges of Agency in Flesh and Fantasy; Queer Belonging in Mortality; Notes; Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Queerness of Aesthetic Agency; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
This volume argues that postwar writers queer the affective relations of reading through experiments with literary form. Tyler Bradway conceptualizes "bad reading" as an affective politics that stimulates queer relations of erotic and political belonging in the event of reading. These incipiently social relations press back against legal, economic, and discursive forces that reduce queerness into a mode of individuality. Each chapter traces the affective politics of bad reading against moments when queer relationality is prohibited, obstructed, or destroyed--from the pre-Stonewall literary obscenity debates, through the AIDS crisis, to the emergence of neoliberal homonormativity and the gentrification of the queer avant-garde. Bradway contests the common narrative that experimental writing is too formalist to engender a mode of social imagination. Instead, he illuminates how queer experimental literature uses form to redraw the affective and social relations that structure the heteronormative public sphere. Through close readings informed by affect theory, Queer Experimental Literature offers new perspectives on writers such as William S. Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker, Jeanette Winterson, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alison Bechdel, and Chuck Palahniuk. Queer Experimental Literature ultimately reveals that the recent turn to affective reading in literary studies is underwritten by a para-academic history of bad reading that offers new idioms for understanding the affective agencies of queer aesthetics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2017) |
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Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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Literary theory.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- LGBT.
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American literature
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Literature, Experimental
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137595430 |
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1137595434 |
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1137596651 |
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9781137596659 |
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