Blog Post 10 (due 5 PM Wednesday 16th April)

Week 11 Cringe, Awkward and Zany

Required Reading:
Alexandra Plakias, “This is Awkward,” A Theory of Awkwardness (Oxford: Oxford University, 2024), 7-37.

Sianne Ngai, “The Zany Science” Our Aesthetic Categories (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2012),
174-182, 197-222, 295-313 (notes).