Research Catalog

Title

The rhetoric of sincerity / edited by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, and Carel Smith.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Alphen, Ernst van.
• Bal, Mieke, 1946-
• Smith, C. E. (Carel E.)

Description

xii, 338 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural memory in the present

Uniform Title

Cultural memory in the present.

Subjects

• Sincerity > Social aspects
• Sincerity > Political aspects
• Sincerity in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index.

Contents

Part I: Sincerity as subjectivity effect. "Why do you tear me from Myself?" : torture, truth, and the arts of the Counter-Reformation / Jane Taylor ; Melody and monotone : performing sincerity in republican France / Katherine Bergeron ; The irreconcilability of hypocrisy and sincerity / Frans-Willem Korsten ; The rhetoric of justification : the preponderance of decisions over rules / Carel Smith ; Must we (NOT) mean what we say? : seriousness and sincerity in the work of J.L. Austin and Stanley Cavell / Hent de Vries -- Part II: Declining sincerity. Can the subaltern confess? : Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the deployment of sexuality / Cesare Casarino ; Like a dog : narrative and confession in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The lives of animals / Yasco Horsman ; Putting sincerity to work : acquiescence and refusal in postfordist art / David McNeill ; When sincerity fails : literatures of migration and the emblematic labor of personhood / Leslie A. Adelson -- Part III: Sincerity as a media effect. A feeling of insincerity : politics, ventriloquy, and the dialectics of gesture in mediality / Jill Bennet ; Derrida on film : staging spectral sincerity / Michael Bachmann ; Documenting September 11th : trauma and the (im)possibility of sincerity / Alison Young ; Being Angela Merkel / Maaike Bleeker ; "Saying everything" and affected self-disclosure in the works of Reinaldo Arenas and Hervé Guibert / Reindert Dhondt.

Call Number

JFE 13-882

ISBN

• 9780804758277 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804758271 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804763028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080476302X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008026105
• 40016381555

OCLC

232327474

Title

The rhetoric of sincerity / edited by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, and Carel Smith.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Series

Cultural memory in the present

Cultural memory in the present.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Alphen, Ernst van.

Bal, Mieke, 1946-

Smith, C. E. (Carel E.)

Other Standard Identifier

40016381555

Research Call Number

JFE 13-882