Style : : A Queer Cosmology / / 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 el...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmillennial Pop ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Introduction
- 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
- Introduction
- 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