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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Born

in Dayton, Ohio, The United States

May 02, 1950

Died

April 12, 2009

Genre

Literary Theory, Gay & Lesbian, Women & Gender Studies

Influences

Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Judith Butler, Michel F ...more

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American academician specializing in literary criticism and feminist analysis; she is known as one of the architects of queer theory. Her works reflect an interest in queer performativity, experimental critical writing, non-Lacanian psychoanalysis, Buddhism and pedagogy, the affective theories of Silvan Tomkins and Melanie Klein, and material culture, especially textiles and texture. Drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of Michel Foucault, Sedgwick uncovered purportedly hidden homoerotic subplots in writers like Charles Dickens, Henry James and Marcel Proust. Sedgwick argued that an understanding of virtually any aspect of modern Western culture would be incomplete or damaged if it failed to incorporate ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 4,851 ratings · 340 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	Epistemology of the Closet 4.10 avg rating — 2,330 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank 4.14 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Nancy K. Miller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dialogue on Love 4.07 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tendencies 4.26 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Coherence of Gothic Conventions 3.72 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weather in Proust (Series Q) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jonathan Goldberg (Editor), Michael Moon (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat Art, Thin Art 3.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q) 3.68 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paranoidi lukutapa ja reparatiivinen lukutapa by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Anna Tuomikoski (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Series Q (47 books)
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Adam Frank

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Para (1 book)
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Anna Tuomikoski (Translator)

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Quotes by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (?)

“That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies

tags: queer

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“There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet

tags: homosexuality, queerness

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“Oh, right, I keep forgetting, for lots and lots of people in the world, the notion of “falling in love” has (of all things) sexual connotations. No, that’s not what I think is happening. For me, what falling in love means is different. It’s a matter of suddenly, globally, “knowing” that another person represents your only access to some vitally
transmissible truth
or radiantly heightened
mode of perception,
and that if you lose the thread of this intimacy, both your soul and your whole world might subsist forever in some desert-like state of ontological impoverishment.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, A Dialogue on Love

tags: love, queer, queerness, sex, sexuality

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