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Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
Michael D. Snediker
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Description for Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
A new paradigm for queer theory
Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be taken beyond conventional tropes of hope and futurity and reimagined as necessary for critical engagement.
Through fresh, perceptive, and sensitive readings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and Elizabeth Bishop, Snediker reveals that each of these poets demonstrated an interest in the durability of positive affects. Dickinson, Snediker argues, expresses joy ... Read moreQueer Optimism revises our understanding of queer love and affiliation, examining Spicer’s serial collusion with matinee idol Billy the Kid as well as the critically neglected force of Bishop’s epistolary and poetic reparations of the drowned figure of Hart Crane. In doing so, Snediker persuasively reconceives a theoretical field of optimism that was previously unavailable to scrupulous critical inquiry and provides a groundbreaking approach to modern American poetry and poetics. Show LessProduct Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816650002
SKU
V9780816650002
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About Michael D. Snediker
Michael D. Snediker is assistant professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Reviews for Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
"Mobilizing disparate resources in lyric poetry, personal reflection, and queer theory, Michael Snediker argues for an optimism not reducible to hope and not opposed to knowledge. Queer Optimism demands that we think again about enjoyment, pain, personhood, and whether and how we live our theories. It’s a challenging book of fresh perspectives and previously unwritable sentences." —Rei Terada, author of ... Read more