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What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction?
In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In contrast, flirtation is the game in which no one seems to gain the upper hand and no one seems to surrender. The counter-concept of flirtation has thus stood quietly to the side, never quite achieving the same prominence as that of seduction. It is this elusive (and largely ignored) territory of playing for play's sake that is the subject of this anthology.
The essays in this volume address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right. Drawing on the interdisciplinary history of scholarship on flirtation even as it re-approaches the question from a distinctly aesthetic and literary-theoretical point of view, the contributors to Flirtations thus give an account of the practice of flirtation and of the figure of the flirt, taking up the act's relationship to issues of mimesis, poetic ambiguity, and aesthetic pleasure. The art of this poetic playfulness—often read or misread as flirtation's "empty gesture"—becomes suddenly legible as the wielding of a particular and subtle form of nonteleological power.
Contents
Acknowledgments "Almost Nothing; Almost Everything": An Introduction to the Discourse of Flirtation Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone Meta-Flirtations Interlude. Barely Covered Banter: Flirtation in Double Indemnity Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz The Art of Flirtation: Simmel's Coquetry without End Paul Fleming "The Double-Sense of 'the With'HS": Rethinking Relation after Simmel Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz Rhetoric's Flirtation with Literature, from Gorgias to Aristotle: The Epideictic Genre Rudiger Campe "A Plaything for Myself": Notes on the Self-Reference of Flirtation Arne Hocker Flirtation with the World Interlude: Staging Appeal, Performing Ambivalence Lauren Shizuko Stone Life Is a Flirtation: Thomas Mann's Felix Krull Elisabeth Strowick The "Irreducible Double-Stroke": Flirtation, Felicity, and Sincerity Lauren Shizuko Stone Frill and Flirtation: Femininity in the Public Space Barbara Vinken Learning to Flirt with Don Juan Christophe Kone Flirtation and Transgression Interlude: Three Terrors of Flirtation Barbara Natalie Nagel The Luxury of Self-Destruction: Flirting with Mimesis with Roger Caillois John Hamilton Wartime Love Affairs and Flirtation: Freud and Caillois on Identifying with Loss Sage Anderson Bestiality: Mediation More Ferarum Jacques Lezra Doing It as the Beasts Did: Intertextuality as Flirtation in Gradiva Barbara Natalie Nagel Notes List of Contributors Index
