Ugly Feelings
by Sianne Ngai
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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. Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2005
- First words
- This book presents a series of studies in the aesthetics of negative emotions, examining their politically ambiguous work in a range of cultural artifacts produced in what T.W. Adorno calls the fully "administered world" of l... (show all)ate modernity. -Introduction
How does one go about creating a "fake" feeling? And to what uses might a artfully created feeling be put? Melville's book The Confidence-Man: is Masquerade (1857) provides us with simple answers to both of these quest... (show all)ions, in a miniature story passed on by one of the novel's noisy throng of "operators" and "transfer-agents" to a fellow passenger on the Mississippi steamer Fidele. -Chapter 1, tone - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 810.9353
- Canonical LCC
- PS169.E48 N45
Classifications
- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 810.9353 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature Themes and subjects Humanity Behaviour and activities
- LCC
- PS169 .E48 .N45 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Treatment of special subjects, classes
- BISAC
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- 188
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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