Tkliwe relacje, perwersyjne lektury.Wprowadzenie do teorii Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Tender Relationships, Perverse Reading – an Introduction to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Theories

Summary/Abstract: Magda Szcześniak introduces to the reader a very colourful figure, one of the most important researchers in the fields of queer studies and affective theory: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the author of, among others, Epistemology of the Closet, Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect, Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Paranoid reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You. Szcześniak mentions the most important phenomena absorbing the American scholar: the problem of closeness, queer, feminism, masculinity, performativity, affects etc. Interestingly, Sedgwick not only researched her theories, but also incorporated them into her writing and pedagogical practice. As a result, a strongly affective, bodily bond appears between the author and the reader.

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