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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

This book delves into the significance of emotional engagement in educational practices and the performance aspects of teaching and learning. more

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an influential American academic and literary critic, recognized for her contributions to queer theory and gender studies. She served as a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her writings have significantly influenced literary criticism and cultural studies. more

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“The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.”