The rhetoric of sincerity
By: edited by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, and Carel Smith.
Contributors: Alphen, Ernst van.; Bal, Mieke, 1946-; Smith, C. E.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780804758277
Subjects: Sincerity in literature; Sincerity -- Political aspects; Sincerity -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sincerity as subjectivity effect; title: "Why do you tear me from Myself?" : torture, truth, and the arts of the Counter-Reformation / Jane Taylor; title: Melody and monotone : performing sincerity in republican France / Katherine Bergeron; title: The irreconcilability of hypocrisy and sincerity / Frans-Willem Korsten; title: The rhetoric of justification : the preponderance of decisions over rules / Carel Smith; title: Must we (NOT) mean what we say? : seriousness and sincerity in the work of J.L. Austin and Stanley Cavell / Hent de Vries; title: Declining sincerity; title: Can the subaltern confess? : Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the deployment of sexuality / Cesare Casarino; title: Like a dog : narrative and confession in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The lives of animals / Yasco Horsman; title: Putting sincerity to work : acquiescence and refusal in postfordist art / David McNeill; title: When sincerity fails : literatures of migration and the emblematic labor of personhood / Leslie A. Adelson; title: Sincerity as a media effect; title: A feeling of insincerity : politics, ventriloquy, and the dialectics of gesture in mediality / Jill Bennet; title: Derrida on film : staging spectral sincerity / Michael Bachmann; title: Documenting September 11th : trauma and the (im)possibility of sincerity / Alison Young; title: Being Angela Merkel / Maaike Bleeker; title: "Saying everything" and affected self-disclosure in the works of Reinaldo Arenas and Hervé Guibert / Reindert Dhondt.