... poems thereby illustrate how late modernism constitutes an interstitial living or what Lauren Berlant has theorized as the “cruel optimism” of late-modern fantasies of the good life. These last poems face their own cruelly optimistic attachments to poetry's political vocation without succumbing...

...), are “constantly in a process of negotiation between affect and masculinity, where the goal of masculinity is cruel optimism, since the desire to achieve [it] ‘is actually an obstacle to your flourishing’ (Berlant) not just as a masculine subject, but as a subject.” In Allan's application of Lauren Berlant's cruel...

... Literaturwissenschaft,” edited by Geulen Eva and Haas Claude . Supplement, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 2021 : 315 – 22 . Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Dabashi Pardis . 2020 . “ Introduction to ‘Cultures of Argument...

... . Spinoza and Politics . Translated by Snowdon Peter . London : Verso . Berlant Lauren . 2010 . “Cruel Optimism.” In Affect Theory Reader , edited by Gregg Melissa Seigworth Gregory , 93 – 117 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Braidotti Rosi . 2002...

... Press , 1993 . Jones Aphrodite . Cruel Sacrifice . New York : Windsor Publishing Corp. , 1994 . Klein Dorie . “Crime Through Gender's Prism: Feminist Criminology in the United States.” International Feminist Perspectives in Criminology: Engendering a Discipline . Ed. Rafter...

... Taylor alive today, he would probably detect a cruel irony in our classification of him as the author of popular travel literature. Poetry was his true calling, or so he thought, and travel writing was merely an income- generating activity he would tolerate until his verses achieved the recognition...

... GENRE and seems to many, especially on first meeting, as an idiot or a boor. He won't dance, he drinks to excess and takes drugs, and he is competitive and cruel. He allows Joan Baez to make him a star, then dumps her after refusing to let her play on stage with him in England as she had...

..., as an idiot or a boor. He won't dance, he drinks to excess and takes drugs, and he is competitive and cruel. He allows Joan Baez to make him a star, then dumps her after refusing to let her play on stage with him in England as she had let him do in the States. And while Hajdu doesn't specifically...

..., as an idiot or a boor. He won't dance, he drinks to excess and takes drugs, and he is competitive and cruel. He allows Joan Baez to make him a star, then dumps her after refusing to let her play on stage with him in England as she had let him do in the States. And while Hajdu doesn't specifically...

... music. In the mythic archetypes I mentioned earlier, a death that initially might appear cruel and unnecessary is imbued with meaning that benefits the community. This sacrificial death, in turn, allows each person to face his or her own mortality, serving as a catalyst for a new life in which...

... with people 342 GENRE and seems to many, especially on first meeting, as an idiot or a boor. He won't dance, he drinks to excess and takes drugs, and he is competitive and cruel. He allows Joan Baez to make him a star, then dumps her after refusing to let her play...

... elicits a raised eyebrow, let alone outrage, we have entered the realm of Sloterdijkian cynicism. Moreover, in such a world, the lines between a self-­aware cynicism and a tempered, clear-­eyed idealism — Gramscian “pessi- mism of the intellect, optimism of the will” — become increasingly...

..., because he was reposing in that pathetic condition of optimism induced by excess of fatigue (207). Lacking energy himself, Verloc cannot account for Winnie s radical form of energy, because from the perspective of entropolitics, self- generating power is invisible. Because Conrad repeatedly links Verloc...

..., Jodie Foster's performance as Iris in Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver (1976), are further elaborations of biopower. Figuring children as the victims of adults who are cruel, clueless, or apathetic furthers the diary's implicit argument that the world has turned upside-down, because the normal...

... a thousand pages earlier (in what then seems to be more or less insignificant): “When she appeared in the stage-­light, Merle felt himself hollow out. . . . [H]e thought he saw a smile, almost cruel, he hadn’t noticed much before, self-­sufficient to be sure, but deter- mined enough now, no denying...

... of empiricism in early seventeenth- century England. Bacon's optimism about the explosion of technology and intellectual daring was not universally shared, however. The socio-political implications of his thought were a flash-point, for instance, among the curious "virtuosi" and the tradesmen...