Flirtations Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction 1st Edition by Daniel Hoffman Schwartz, Barbara Nagel, Lauren Stone 0823264904 9780823264902

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ISBN 10: 0823264904 

ISBN 13: 9780823264902

Author: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Nagel, Lauren Stone

What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In contrast, flirtation is the game in which no one seems to gain the upper hand and no one seems to surrender. The counter-concept of flirtation has thus stood quietly to the side, never quite achieving the same prominence as that of seduction. It is this elusive (and largely ignored) territory of playing for play’s sake that is the subject of this anthology. The essays in this volume address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right. Drawing on the interdisciplinary history of scholarship on flirtation even as it re-approaches the question from a distinctly aesthetic and literary-theoretical point of view, the contributors to Flirtations thus give an account of the practice of flirtation and of the figure of the flirt, taking up the act’s relationship to issues of mimesis, poetic ambiguity, and aesthetic pleasure. The art of this poetic playfulness—often read or misread as flirtation’s “empty gesture”—becomes suddenly legible as the wielding of a particular and subtle form of nonteleological power.

Table of contents:

“Almost Nothing; Almost Everything”: An Introduction to the Discourse of Flirtation

META-FLIRTATIONS

INTERLUDE. Barely Covered Banter: Flirtation in Double Indemnity

The Art of Flirtation: Simmel’s Coquetry Without End

“The Double-Sense of the ‘With’ ”: Rethinking Relation after Simmel

Rhetoric’s Flirtation with Literature, from Gorgias to Aristotle: The Epideictic Genre

Playing with Yourself: On the Self- Reference of Flirtation

FLIRTATION WITH THE WORLD

INTERLUDE. Staging Appeal, Performing Ambivalence

Life Is a Flirtation: Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull

The “Irreducibly Doubled Stroke”: Flirtation, Felicity, and Sincerity

Frill and Flirtation: Femininity in the Public Space

Learning to Flirt with Don Juan

FLIRTATION AND TRANSGRESSION

INTERLUDE. Three Terrors of Flirtation

The Luxury of Self-Destruction: Flirting with Mimesis with Roger Caillois

Wartime Love Affairs and Deathly Flirtation: Freud and Caillois on Identifying with Loss

Bestiality: Mediation More Ferarum

Doing It as the Beasts Did: Intertextuality as Flirtation in Gradiva

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