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The power of cute / Simon May.
Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 44032ISBN: 9780691185712 (e-book)Subject(s): CharmGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power of cute.DDC classification: 646.7 LOC classification: BJ1610 | .M39 2019Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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May (King's College, London, UK) offers an accessible but brief philosophical rumination on cuteness. In his preface May writes that his approach was "inspired by" Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" and Harry Frankfurt's 1986 essay "On Bullshit." Stylistically, The Power of Cute has more in common with Sontag's free-ranging taxonomy of irony and doubled meaning than it does with Frankfurt's narrower philosophical analysis, although it shares with both a sense of playful engagement with the concept under discussion. Readers expecting a rigorous, fully developed theory of Cute (May routinely capitalizes the term) are likely to leave unsatisfied. But those willing to follow the author's dive into a rich collection of examples will be rewarded by the book's provocative blending of the adorable with the political in what is ultimately a meditation on the mechanics of power. One might be forgiven for finding the chapters on Kim Jong-Il ("The Cuteness of Kim Jong-Il") and Donald Trump ("Cute and the Monstrous: The Case of Donald Trump") a bit off-putting--and perhaps not particularly convincing with regard to the author's point about the connection between the cute and the monstrous. Nonetheless, the text as a whole is a uniquely productive springboard for imagining a more complicated Cute. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --Laura M Bernhardt, University of Southern IndianaThere are no comments on this title.
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