The Resource Ugly feelings, Sianne Ngai
Ugly feelings, Sianne Ngai
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The item Ugly feelings, Sianne Ngai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- Envy, irritation, paranoia -- in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these noncathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosis the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called "animatedness" and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called "stuplimity." She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television. Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature -- with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race -- but also blind spots in contemporary literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 422 pages)
- Contents
-
- Tone
- Animatedness
- Envy
- Irritation
- Anxiety
- Stuplimity
- Paranoia
- Afterword: on disgust
- Isbn
- 9780674024090
- Label
- Ugly feelings
- Title
- Ugly feelings
- Statement of responsibility
- Sianne Ngai
- Subject
-
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Amerikaans
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Emoties
- Emotions in literature
- Emotions in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Letterkunde
- Negativism in literature
- Psychological fiction, American
- Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Negativism in literature
- American literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Envy, irritation, paranoia -- in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these noncathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosis the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called "animatedness" and a paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called "stuplimity." She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television. Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening. Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and representational dilemmas in literature -- with a particular focus on those inflected by gender and race -- but also blind spots in contemporary literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ngai, Sianne
- Dewey number
- 810.9/353
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- In English
- LC call number
- PS169.E48
- LC item number
- N45 2005eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American literature
- Emotions in literature
- Psychological fiction, American
- Negativism in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Race in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American literature
- Emotions in literature
- Negativism in literature
- Psychological fiction, American
- Race in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Letterkunde
- Amerikaans
- Emoties
- Label
- Ugly feelings, Sianne Ngai
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-405) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Tone -- Animatedness -- Envy -- Irritation -- Anxiety -- Stuplimity -- Paranoia -- Afterword: on disgust
- Control code
- 438732454
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 422 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674024090
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.4159/9780674041523
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvjj2zx7
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)438732454
- Label
- Ugly feelings, Sianne Ngai
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-405) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Tone -- Animatedness -- Envy -- Irritation -- Anxiety -- Stuplimity -- Paranoia -- Afterword: on disgust
- Control code
- 438732454
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 422 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674024090
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.4159/9780674041523
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvjj2zx7
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)438732454
Subject
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Amerikaans
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Emoties
- Emotions in literature
- Emotions in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Letterkunde
- Negativism in literature
- Psychological fiction, American
- Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Race in literature
- Race in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Negativism in literature
- American literature
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