{"product_id":"contingent-figure-chronic-pain-and-queer-embodiment-hardback-9780816691883","title":"Contingent Figure; Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment (Hardback) 9780816691883","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChronic Pain and Queer Embodiment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael D. Snediker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816691883\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for the very best readers. Its meditation on chronic pain reimagines formalism’s intimate attention to bodily distress, in turn impelling queer theory to reckon with how incapacity feels as opposed to just the uses to which it is put politically. Poetic, incisive, and continually surprising, \u003ci\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/i\u003e is one of a kind.\"-Elizabeth Freeman, author of \u003ci\u003eBeside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"To learn the meaning of memory in the ruins of love, that is Michael D. Snediker's dare. The pages on Melville are harrowing and majestic, a wildly beautiful summons to throw ourselves into the visceral depths. \u003ci\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/i\u003e pushed me to experience both the deepest philosophy and the most obstinate invitation to the tremors of the flesh.\"-Colin Dayan, author of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Quintet: A Southern Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/i\u003e provides a timely defense, as well as a magisterial illustration, of what a literary reading of literary texts can achieve.\"-\u003ci\u003eALH Online Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the intersection of queer theory and disability studies, acclaimed theorist Michael D. Snediker locates something unexpected: chronic pain. Starting from this paradigm-shifting insight, Snediker elaborates a bracing examination of the phenomenological peculiarity of disability, articulating a complex idiom of figuration as the lived substance of pain’s quotidian. This lexicon helps us differently inhabit both the theoretical and phenomenal dimensions of chronic pain and suffering by illuminating where these modes are least distinguishable. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuffused with fastidious close readings, and girded by a remarkably complex understanding of phenomenal experience, \u003ci\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/i\u003e resides in the overlap between literary theory and lyric experiment. Snediker grounds his exploration of disability and chronic pain in dazzling close readings of Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and many others. Its juxtaposition of these readings with candid autobiographical accounts makes \u003ci\u003eContingent Figure\u003c\/i\u003e an exemplary instance of literary theory as a practice of lyric attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThoroughly rigorous and anything but predictable, this stirring inquiry leaves the reader with a rich critical vocabulary indebted to the likes of Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, D. O. Winnicott, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. A master class in close reading’s inseparability from the urgency of lived experience, this book is essential for students and scholars of disability studies, queer theory, formalism, aesthetics, and the radical challenge of Emersonian poetics across the long American nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: Crasher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: “So Much for My Figurative Self”; or, Aesthetic Duress (\u003ci\u003ePlein-Air,\u003c\/i\u003e in Parts)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Melville’s Iron Crown of Lombardy: Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Queer Philology and Chronic Pain \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. “The Vision – pondered long”: Chronic Pain and the Materiality of Figuration \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Inveterate Pagoda: Late James, Ongoingness, and the Figure of Hurt \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Is the Rectangle a Grave? Floating Attention, Betweenness in Relief\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Weaver’s Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570080444696,"sku":"9780816691883","price":66.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/contingent-figure-chronic-pain-and-queer-embodiment-hardback-9780816691883","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}