Ugly Feelings

Informationen zum Autor Sianne Ngai Klappentext blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory. Zusammenfassung Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction *1. Tone *2. Animatedness *3. Envy *4. Irritation *5. Anxiety *6. Stuplimity *7. Paranoia * Afterword: On Disgust * Notes * Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sianne Ngai, Ngai Sianne
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.04.2007
• EAN: 9780674024090
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02409-0
• Pagine: 432
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 202 mm x 23 mm
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Repetition, Aggression, Animation, Body, Cultural Studies, Language, Capitalism, Heidegger, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Postmodernism, Anxiety, Mood, Literature: history & criticism, Subjectivity, Object, Identification, Sublime, Projection, negativity, passivity, Tone, fredric jameson, weak, thrownness