Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Title Come As You Are, After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher punctum books
Pages 135
Release 2021-04-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1953035442

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"This book brings together two pieces of writing. In the first, "After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick," Jonathan Goldberg assesses her legacy, prompted mainly by writing about Sedgwick's work that has appeared in the years since her death in April 2009. Writing by Lauren Berlant, Jane Gallop, Katy Hawkins, Scott Herring, Lana Lin, and Philomina Tsoukala are among those considered as he explores questions of queer temporality and the breaching of ontological divides. Main concerns include the relationship of Sedgwick's later work in Proust, fiber, and Buddhism to her fundamental contribution to queer theory, and the axes of identification across difference that motivated her work and attachment to it. "Come As You Are," the other piece of writing, is a previously unpublished talk Sedgwick gave in 1999-2000. It represents a significant bridge between her earlier and later work, sharing with her book Tendencies the ambition to discover the "something" that makes queer inextinguishable. In this piece, Sedgwick does that by contemplating her own mortality alongside her creative engagement with Buddhist thought, especially the in-between states named bardos and her newfound energy for making things. These were represented in a show of her fabric art, "Floating Columns/In the Bardo," that accompanied her talk, a number of images of which are included in this book. They feature floating figures suspended in the realization of death. They are objects produced by Sedgwick, made of fabric; they come from her, yet are discontinuous with her, occupying a mode of existence that exceeds the span of human life and the confines of individual identity. They could be put beside the queer transitive identifications across difference that Goldberg's essay explores"--Publisher's description

A Dialogue On Love

A Dialogue On Love
Title A Dialogue On Love PDF eBook
Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher Beacon Press
Pages 250
Release 2000-06-09
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780807029237

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When she begins therapy for depression after breast cancer treatment, the author brings with her an extraordinarily open and critical mind, but also shyness about revealing herself. Resisting easy responses to issues of dependence, desire, and mortality, she warily commits to a male therapist who shares little of her cultural and intellectual world. Although not without pain, their improvised relationship is as unexpectedly pleasurable as her writing is unconventional: Sedgwick combines dialogue, verse, and even her therapist's notes to explore her interior life--and delivers and delicate and tender account of how we arrive at love.

The Weather in Proust

The Weather in Proust
Title The Weather in Proust PDF eBook
Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 242
Release 2011-12-20
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 0822351587

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At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.

Tendencies

Tendencies
Title Tendencies PDF eBook
Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 302
Release 1993-10-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0822381869

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Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.

Lifework

Lifework
Title Lifework PDF eBook
Author Moran Sheleg
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 421
Release 2024-07-23
Genre Art
ISBN 1526172461

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Following the critical scepticism surrounding the notion of the ‘self’ as a singular entity during the 1960s, many artists and writers sought to test the apparent problem posed by autobiography as both a traditional genre and as a way of working. Considering the consequent emergence of autotheory, Lifework traces this shift in artistic and literary production during the late twentieth century and beyond, examining a set of diverse practices that mine the line between what it is to make art and what it is to live life. The book’s chapters connect a variety of artistic strategies that cut across medium, geography and time, uncovering how the historical marginalisation of first-person experience has taken on larger social, cultural and political implications in the contemporary moment and how the work of living might still relate to the work of art.

Touching Feeling

Touching Feeling
Title Touching Feeling PDF eBook
Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 212
Release 2003-01-17
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 9780822330158

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DIVA collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity./div

After Sex?

After Sex?
Title After Sex? PDF eBook
Author Janet Halley
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 330
Release 2011-01-18
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 0822349094

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Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its accomplishments, limitations, and critical potential.