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基本説明
Focuses on the theatricality of sincerity, its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or failure of such performances.
Full Description
In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts—literature, but especially the visual and performing arts—and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular representation, during a time of major religious changes. The present historical moment has much in common with that era; with its religious and cultural conflicts and major transformations in representational idioms and media. The Rhetoric of Sincerity is concerned with the ways in which the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different media and disciplines. The book focuses on the theatricality of sincerity, its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or failure of such performances.
Contents
Contents List of Contributors xxx Introduction 000 Ernst van Alphen and Mieke Bal Part I. Sincerity as Subjectivity Effect 1 "Why do you tear me from Myself?": Torture, Truth, and the Arts of the Counter-Reformation 000 Jane Taylor 2 Melody and Monotone: Performing Sincerity in Republican France 000 Katherine Bergeron 3 The Irreconcilability of Hypocrisy and Sincerity 000 Frans-Willem Korsten 4 The Rhetoric of Justification: The Preponderance of Decisions over Rules 000 Carel Smith 5 Must We (NOT) Mean What We Say? Seriousness and Sincerity in the Work of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell 000 Hent de Vries Part II. Declining Sincerity 6 Can the Subaltern Confess? Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the Deployment of Sexuality 000 Cesare Casarino 7 Like a Dog: Narrative and Confession in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The Lives of Animals 000 Yasco Horsman 8 Putting Sincerity to Work: Acquiescence and Refusal in Postfordist Art 000 David McNeill 9 When Sincerity Fails: Literatures of Migration and the Emblematic Labor of Personhood 000 Leslie A. Adelson Part III. Sincerity as a Media Effect 10 A Feeling of Insincerity: Politics, Ventriloquy, and the Dialectics of Gesture in Mediality 000 Jill Bennet 11 Derrida on Film: Staging Spectral Sincerity 000 Michael Bachmann 12 Documenting September 11th: Trauma and the (Im)possibility of Sincerity 000 Alison Young 13 Being Angela Merkel 000 Maaike Bleeker 14 "Saying Everything" and Affected Self-Disclosure in the Works of Reinaldo Arenas and Herv' Guibert 000 Reindert Dhondt Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
