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).
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