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Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
ISBN: 9780823264926
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
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Subjects: Sociology ; Language & Literature;

Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction, opens by asking a fundamental first question: What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? The essays thereby address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right.

Daniel Hoffman- Schwartz is an associate research scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His work has appeared in the Oxford Literary Review and The Dictionary of Untranslatables. He is currently at work on his first book, "Infinite Reflection on the Revolution in France: Burke, Theoretical Romanticism, and the Political."Nagel Barbara Natalie :

Barbara Natalie Nagel is an assistant professor in the Department of German at Princeton University. Her first book is Der Skandal des Literalen: Barocke Literalisierungen in Gryphius, Kleist, Büchner. She is currently working on a book project entitled "Ambiguous Aggressions: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, and Domestic Violence in Realism and Beyond." She has published articles in Law and Literature and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.Stone Lauren Shizuko :

Lauren Shizuko Stone is a lecturer in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently preparing her first book, tentatively titled "The 'Small Worlds' of Childhood in Stifter, Rilke, and Benjamin."