<DIV>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 nece...(展开全部)

Cruel Optimism provides important new ways of understanding subjectivity, temporality, attachment, and the political in the present moment. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unravelling of the U.S. and European economies by analyzing mass media, literature, television, film, and video produced in the United States and Europe since 1990...(展开全部)

Cruel Optimism provides important new ways of understanding subjectivity, temporality, attachment, and the political in the present moment. Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unravelling of the U.S. and European economies by analyzing mass media, literature, television, film, and video produced in the United States and Europe since 1990...(展开全部)

This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific resear...(展开全部)

This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific resear...(展开全部)

This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific resear...(展开全部)

Psychologists have long been aware that most people tend to maintain an irrationally positive outlook on life. In fact, optimism may be crucial to our existence. Tali Sharot's original cognitive research demonstrates in surprising ways the biological basis for optimism. In this fascinating exploration, she takes an in-depth, clarifying look at how the brain generates hope and w...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 海伦·文德勒(HelenVendler)，美国文学评论界的领军人物，被称为当代极为优秀、敏锐的诗歌评论家之一。1933年出生于马萨诸塞州，1960年获得哈佛大学文学博士学位，先后在康奈尔大学、波士顿大学等大学任职。1984年开始在哈佛大学英语系任教，兼任美国艺术与科学研究院院士。1990年，被任命为哈佛大学亚瑟·金斯利·波特讲座教授。文德勒专注于诗人和诗歌作品的细读，被誉为具有“铁血战士般的战斗力”，是一位“力量型的诗歌读者”。她多年来笔耕不辍，推出多部关于英美诗人的专著，因为卓越的贡献，获得了代表美国最高人文成就的国家人文基金等无数荣誉和奖项。 在《巴黎评论》上，她解释了她科学家一般精确的诗歌细读法和批评实践原则：“你必须以非常清晰的方式为你的假设提供证据；你的方程式必须是均衡的；左侧必须与右侧保持平衡。一件事必须导致下一件事，所有...(展开全部)

Learn the methods used by Yeats , February 4, 2008 By N. Gallo (western Massachusetts) Helen Vendler's analysis of Yeats' poetry is thorough and mind-boggling in detail. She deals with his early work by comparing it to its sources. She considers it fairly thought-free. His later work becomes more complex, very disciplined and captures the flavor of the times. The Irish war for...(展开全部)

Learn the methods used by Yeats , February 4, 2008 By N. Gallo (western Massachusetts) Helen Vendler's analysis of Yeats' poetry is thorough and mind-boggling in detail. She deals with his early work by comparing it to its sources. She considers it fairly thought-free. His later work becomes more complex, very disciplined and captures the flavor of the times. The Irish war for...(展开全部)