Lauren Berlant (1957–2021)

Auteur de Cruel Optimism

20+ oeuvres 885 utilisateurs 3 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, coauthor of The Hundreds, and author of Cruel Optimism, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Œuvres de Lauren Berlant

Populaires Récent

Cruel Optimism (2011) 333 exemplaires

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (1997) 150 exemplaires

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (2008) 91 exemplaires

Sex, or the Unbearable (2013) 64 exemplaires

The Hundreds (2019) 49 exemplaires

Intimacy (2000) 45 exemplaires

Desire/Love (2012) 34 exemplaires

On the Inconvenience of Other People (Writing Matters!) (2022) 33 exemplaires

Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute) (2004) 26 exemplaires

The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (1991) 24 exemplaires

Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (Sexual Cultures) (2001) 20 exemplaires

Reading Sedgwick (Theory Q) (2019) 8 exemplaires

"'68 or the Revolution of Little Queers" 1 exemplaire

Critical Inquiry (Intimacy, 24:2 Winter) 1 exemplaire

The Affect Theory Reader 1 exemplaire

What does queer theory teach us about X? In PMLA 110 (1) 1 exemplaire

Sex in Public. In Critical Inquiry 24(2) Intimacy 1 exemplaire

Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant(1996-01-19) (2011) 1 exemplaire

Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute) (2014) 1 exemplaire

El corazón de la nación. Ensayos sobre política y sentimentalismo (Spanish Edition) (2011) 1 exemplaire

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Oeuvres associées

The Blithedale Romance [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2010) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires

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Date de naissance: 1957-10-31
Date de décès: 2021-06-28
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Études: Oberlin College, BA English, 1979
Cornell University, MA English, 1983
Cornell University, Ph.D. English, 1985
Professions: professor (English)
George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Organisations: University of Chicago

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Cruel Optimism par Lauren Berlant

I read this over the summer, but it's probably more of a January thing. When it gets real rough just to do anything at all, this stuff can help.

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Jetztzeit | 1 autre critique | May 15, 2020 |

Cruel Optimism par Lauren Berlant

Definitely thought-provoking, though some of the connections between chapters felt a little disparate? I really enjoyed chapter five, especially the thoughts related to slow death, but was less interested in other things? This just wasn't my greatest cup of tea, which is more about my feelings and less about the book itself. I liked it, I just wasn't thrilled and rarely felt like blown away. A good read nonetheless, and I recommend it to folks who want to engage with affect theory and see how it works/what it might be able to do for them.… (plus d'informations)

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aijmiller | 1 autre critique | May 23, 2018 |