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.
目录
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
重读。相较于巴特勒的对言行理论的时间阐释(citationality),Sedgwick从空间化角度来做“另类”补充。她提出了periperformativity,进而延伸到舞台表演与剧场性的问题,又牵出另一条线情动理论。而修复式阅读则更尝试用愉悦的美学观来解读文本,这有点接近于福柯的自我技术。塞与巴同为酷儿研究的标杆性人物,Sedgwick却更少被提及,想来巴特勒用拉康和福柯对前人的梳理、补漏、纠偏也“更适合成为正典”。不过比起使用许多理论工具的巴特勒,她在书中就表现出了她对理论的“警惕”,警惕tautology of sexual difference. 她的研究某种意义上也实践她的了她的“周边”阐释,一种点式的发散而非系统性的整理。读的时候会像充满智慧的长者在“温柔”地和你对话。
paranoia in Billy budd and post crituque. 研究出发点需要独立性.
Deeply engaged with private emotions and personal experience, Sedgwick starts with a queer reading of Henry James and ends with an inquiry of Buddhist notion of pedagogy, This book on affect and queer theory not only points out the limitation of our paranoid critical habits but also demonstrates a reparative approach towards reading and thinking.