The Weather in Proust

by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky; Goldberg, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780822351580
• ISBN10: 0822351587
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-20
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

At the time of her death after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by her friend and fellow-Series Q editor, Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work done since our publication of Touching Feeling. In addition to her thoughts on affect, mind, Proust, and Klein, Sedgwick writes about Buddhism, her own artwork, and also looks back at her contributions to queer theory. Filled with luminous insight and Eve’s singular prose, this will be the last book in Series Q.

Author Biography

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Epistemology of the Closet, Between Men, and A Dialogue on Love. Her books Touching Feeling; Tendencies; Fat Art, Thin Art; Novel Gazing; Gary in Your Pocket; and Shame and Its Sisters (co-edited with Adam Frank) are all also published by Duke University Press. Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Studies in Sexualities Program at Emory University. He is the author, most recently, of The Seeds of Things.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	p. xiii
The Weather in Proust	p. 1
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods	p. 42
Making Things, Practicing Emptiness	p. 69
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes	p. 123
Affect Theory and Theory of Mind	p. 144
Anality: News from the Front	p. 166
Making Gay Meanings	p. 183
Thinking through Queer Theory	p. 190
Reality and Realization	p. 206
Figure Credits	p. 217
Index	p. 219
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