Flirtations : : Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction / / Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone; ed. by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Nagel, Barbara Natalie,; Stone, Lauren Shizuko,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Sage,; Campe, Rüdiger,; Fleming, Paul,; Hamilton, John,; Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel,; Höcker, Arne,; Koné, Christophe,; Lezra, Jacques,; Nagel, Barbara Natalie,; Shizuko Stone, Lauren,; Strowick, Elisabeth,; Vinken, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Hoffman-Schwartz, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; "Almost Nothing; Almost Everything": An Introduction to the Discourse of Flirtation --; META-FLIRTATIONS --; INTERLUDE --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; Notes --; List of Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823264926; 9783110729030
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823264926?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone; ed. by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz.

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.