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Flirtations - Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction (Paperback)
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Flirtations - Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction (Paperback)
Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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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.
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