{"product_id":"flirtations-daniel-hoffman-schwartz-9780823264902","title":"Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823264904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823264902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054516007167,"sku":"9780823264902","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7393a035-e420-4870-ad77-455034d40122.jpg?v=1685030400","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flirtations-daniel-hoffman-schwartz-9780823264902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}