Touching feeling : affect, pedagogy, performativity
- Durham: Duke University Press, 2003
- xii, 195p. : ill.; 22.8 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion." In prose sometimes somber, often.
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American literature History and criticism Emotions in literature Expression in literature Gay and lesbian studies Homosexuality in literature