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Author | : Christine Varnado |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1452961638 |
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Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance. Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed. This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.
Author | : Christine Marie Varnado |
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Release | : 2011 |
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In these texts I uncover a distinctly melancholic and queer mode of colonial desire: one predicated on impossible longing, renunciation, and haunting, thwarted identification with lost native American "others.".
Author | : William Nigel Dodd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1993* |
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Author | : George Stiny |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-11-15 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 026254413X |
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Visual calculating in shape grammars aligns with art and design, bridging the gap between seeing (Coleridge's “imagination”) and combinatoric play (Coleridge's “fancy”). In Shapes of Imagination, George Stiny runs visual calculating in shape grammars through art and design—incorporating Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetic imagination and Oscar Wilde's corollary to see things as they aren't. Many assume that calculating limits art and design to suit computers, but shape grammars rely on seeing to prove otherwise. Rules that change what they see extend calculating to overtake what computers can do, in logic and with data and learning. Shape grammars bridge the divide between seeing (Coleridge's “imagination, or esemplastic power”) and combinatoric play (Coleridge's “fancy”). Stiny shows that calculating without seeing excludes art and design. Seeing is key for calculating to augment creative activity with aesthetic insight and value. Shape grammars go by appearances, in a full-fledged aesthetic enterprise for the inconstant eye; they answer the question of what calculating would be like if Turing and von Neumann were artists instead of logicians. Art and design are calculating in all their splendid detail.
Author | : Leslie Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Indian dance |
ISBN | : 9781584307297 |
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"Joe is dancing the Fancy Dance for the first time. How do you think he feels?"--Back cover.
Author | : Marcia B. Siegel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520042032 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Keynes |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 144749928X |
Download Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Christopher Hart |
Publisher | : Chris Hart Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 9781936096954 |
Download Drawing Animals Shape by Shape Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If you can draw a simple circle, square, rectangle, or triangle, you can draw any of the more than 100 cartoon animals in this fun and colorful book by Christopher Hart, the world's bestselling author of how-to-draw books. In this follow-up to the popular book Drawing Shape by Shape, kids and adults alike will learn how to draw a wide variety of animals, from common dogs and cats to safari animals, sea creatures, birds, bugs, reptiles, dinosaurs and much more. With step-by-step instructions and a colorful collection of cartoon creatures, drawing animals is as easy as it is fun
Author | : Marcia B. Siegel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1985-05-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520042124 |
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"What is strikingly new about Miss Siegel's achievement is that she goes beyond the usual kind of historical reassessment. . . . She performs on behalf of this most evanescent of the arts an act of significant recovery. By tracking down--often in rare stage revivals, on film or on videotape--as many of the works by major creators of the last half century as survive, and by describing them . . . in a manner that combines accuracy and imagination, she has enriched our knowledge of the past and added immeasurably, to our resent stock of critical resources."--Dale Harris, New York Times Book Review "Siegel has a gut feeling for dance and a razor-sharp intelligence about it. It's an irresistible combination."--Margaret Pierpont, Dance Magazine "After you've seen and felt dance this deeply--even vicariously--your way of looking at dance will never be the same."--William Albright, Houston Post She sees, acutely, with her muscles as well as her eyes. She thinks about dance as much as she experiences it. . . . This is dance choreography reconstituted. Dances leap off the page. . . . The ability to do that is extraordinary."--Jean Bunke, Des Moines Sunday Register "The sections in which she describes the dances themselves make up the bulk of the book and they are profoundly illuminating. . . . These descriptions represent an amazing literary, as well as critical, accomplishment, for they are both accurate and resonant, both objective and enlightening, both formal and personal."--Laura Shapiro, The Real Paper "Siegel draws on her years of experience as a working dance critic, a profession she has helped to shape, and brings to a range of American dance a sense of honesty and a mind that wants to understand the antecedents of what is currently in vogue as the dance explosion."--Iris M. Fanger, The Christian Science Monitor
Author | : Jane O'Connor |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2009-06-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061703729 |
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Nancy and her partner for the talent show are very different. They don't have any of the same talents. How will they ever come up with an act?