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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- English language --- French language --- English literature --- Anglais (Langue) --- Français (Langue) --- Littérature anglaise --- Terms and phrases --- History and criticism --- Mots et locutions --- Histoire et critique --- -Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Setting (Literature) --- Analogy in literature --- Reasoning in literature --- Place (Literature) --- Authorship --- Drama --- Fiction --- Literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Technique --- Français (Langue) --- Littérature anglaise --- Place (Philosophy) in literature

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This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noé, Caro Novella, and duskin drum – to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse. The first part of the book makes a case for the political work done alongside discourse by performers practising with materials that are not-known, in ways that are directly relevant to people carrying out their daily lives. In the second part of the book, four case study chapters circle around figures of irresolvable paradox – hendiadys, enthymeme, anecdote, allegory – that gesture to what is not-known, to study strategies for processes of becoming, knowing and valuing. These figures also shape some elements of these performances that make up a suggested rhetorical stance for performativity.

Performance art --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Performing arts --- Political aspects. --- Theater. --- Performing arts. --- Actors. --- Aesthetics. --- Contemporary Theatre. --- Performing Arts. --- Performers and Practitioners. --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Theater --- Show business --- Arts --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Acting --- Actors --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics

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Aesthetics is a field still rooted in an understanding of a unified process where small numbers of people produce, commodify, and consume objects called "art." Disunified Aesthetics deconstructs the literary object by invoking the critics stance toward the written works with which they engage. Lynette Hunters performative explorations provide a distinctly different way of understanding contemporary creative processes. Disunified Aesthetics takes up twenty-first-century aesthetics through an investigation of recent Canadian writing. The book is both a series of insights into literature and poetics of the last two decades and a story about moving from a traditional view of the relation between the artist, art, and its reception, to a more radically democratic view of aesthetics and ethics. Hunter addresses a range of Canadian womens writing, as well as close studies of the work of Robert Kroetsch, Lee Maracle, Nicole Brossard, Frank Davey, Alice Munro, Daphne Marlatt, and bpNichol. Disunified Aesthetics is a creative, challenging, and original investigation of textuality, performance, and aesthetics by a leading and innovative scholar.

Canadian literature (English) --- Aesthetics in literature. --- Performance in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature. --- Littérature canadienne-anglaise --- Esthétique dans la littérature. --- Morale dans la littérature. --- Esthétique de la réception. --- English literature --- Canadian literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc.

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This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495-1660, beginning with Erasmus' work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an 'absent audience', and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance. Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the 'subject' and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the 'self' defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially 'middling' and laboring people and the poor.

Capitalism. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- England --- Intellectual life --- Behavior. --- Citizenship in Early Modern England. --- Friendship. --- Relational Identity. --- Rhetoric. --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 1500-1799

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Canadian literature --- Feminism and literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Littérature canadienne --- Féminisme et littérature --- Editeurs et édition --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique