Style : : A Queer Cosmology / / Taylor Black.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Black, Taylor,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Postmillennial Pop ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 16 b/w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Elementals of Style --; Part I. The Mystery of Personality: Queerness as Style --; Introduction --; 1. Quentin Crisp, Queen of the Birds: On Queerness, Repetition, and Style --; 2. It Takes a Sheep: Flannery O’Connor’s Backward Prophets --; Part II. The Arrow of Time: Style and the Problems of History and Originality --; 3. The Poe Machine: Style and the Strange Futures of American Literary Studies --; 4. Shadow Kingdom: A Bob Dylan Ghost Story --; Part III.The Critic as Stylist: Toward a Theory of Attunement --; 5. The Musical (Re)Turn: Listening in American Literary Criticism --; 6. The Intensive Zone: Pragmatism, Postmaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Other Forms of Belief as Method --; 7. Ambivalence and Attunement: On Our Field Formations and Deformations --; Coda: The Universe That Encloses the Universe --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479825028; 9783110751635
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479825028.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Taylor Black.

Assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental natureof styleWhile “style” is equated with fashion or convention in common parlance, Style: A Queer Cosmologydefines the term as a mode of expression that makes us more like ourselves and less like everyone else.Taylor Black’s interdisciplinary conceptual analysis assembles texts, performances, and personae fromAmerican culture that engage in ethical, creative, and performative modes of what he terms “abundantrevelation.” Moving back and forth through time, this book sketches American cosmologies cultivated byiconic and subterranean American artists like Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O’Connor, Nikki Giovanni, andBob Dylan. Presiding throughout is the book’s conceptual guide: latter-day American and notorioushomosexual Quentin Crisp, resurrected here as a philosopher of style.As a scholarly intervention, Style participates in the critical work of revival and attunement—revitalizingfigures, terms, and ideas that have become too familiar. Returning to viewing the critic as a stylist, Style:A Queer Cosmology leans into the study of things and qualities that are immanent and elude paraphrase or social scientific categorization. Style is about the possible rather than the probable, singularity over universals, personality instead of identity, the emergent and not the new—the mystery of becoming.