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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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born

May 02, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio, The United States

died

April 12, 2009

gender

female

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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Books by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Average rating: 4.15 · 885 ratings · 59 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Epistemology of the Closet 4.15 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Nancy K. Miller (Editor), Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank 4.13 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tendencies by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve Kosofskysedgwick, Michele Ainabarale (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Dialogue on Love 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Coherence of Gothic Conventions 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Performance and Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Andrew Parker 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fat Art, Thin Art 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Weather in Proust by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jonathan Goldberg 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take; with only the patchiest familiarity with its codes; without, even, more than hungrily hypothesizing to what questions this news may proffer an answer.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction

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“It is a rather amazing fact that, of the very many dimensions along which the genital activity of one person can be differentiated from that of another (dimensions that include preference for certain acts, certain zones or sensations, certain physical types, a certain frequency, certain symbolic investments, certain relations of age or power, a certain species, a certain number of participants, and so on) precisely one, the gender of the object choice, emerged from the turn of the century, and has remained, as THE dimension denoted by the now ubiquitous category of 'sexual orientation.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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