On Style: An Atelier edited by Eileen A. Joy and Anna Kłosowska ; with assistance from M. Sparkles Joy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joy, Eileen A., Editor.

Contributor:

Kłosowska, Anna, 1966- editor.

Joy, Eileen A., 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing--Discourse analysis.

Academic writing.

Style (Philosophy).

Literary style.

Rhetoric.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2013

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Style, more than species, is what distinguishes the howl of the wolves saluting the moon from the songs of the neighborhood dogs rising over fences and alleyways."--Valerie Vogrin. Scholarship in medieval studies of the past 20 or so years has offered some provocative experiments in, and elegant exempla of, style. Scholars such as Anne Clark Bartlett, Kathleen Biddick, Catherine Brown, Brantley Bryant, Michael Camille, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Carolyn Dinshaw, James Earl, L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, Roberta Frank, Amy Hollywood, Cary Howie, C. Stephen Jaeger, Eileen Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, Peggy McCracken, Paul Strohm, David Wallace, and Paul Zumthor, among others, have blended the conventions of academic writing with those of fiction, drama, memoir, comedy, polemic, and lyricism, and/or have developed what some would describe as elegant, and arresting (and in some cases, deliciously difficult), prose styles. As these registers merge, they can produce what has been called a queer historiographical encounter (or in queer theorist Elizabeth Freeman's terms, "an erotohistoriography"), a "poetics of intensification," and even a "new aestheticism." The work of these scholars has also opened up debates (some rancorous) that often install what the editors of this volume feel are false binaries between form and content, feeling and thinking, affect and rigor, poetry and history, attachment and critical distance, enjoyment and discipline, style and substance. What can be said about the "style" of academic discourse at the present time, especially in relation to historical method, theory, and reading literary and historical texts? Is style merely supplemental to scholarly substance? As scholars, are we "subjects" of style? And what is the relationship between style and theory? Is style an object, a method, or something else? These were the questions that guided two conference sessions organized by the BABEL Working Group in 2010 (in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Austin, Texas), out of which this volume was developed. On Style: An Atelier gathers together medievalists and early modernists, as well as a poet and a novelist, in order to offer ruminations upon style in scholarship and theoretical writing (Roland Barthes, Carolyn Dinshaw, Lee Edelman, Bracha Ettinger, Charles Fourier, L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, Heidegger, Lacan, Ignatius of Loyola, and the Marquis de Sade, among others), as well as upon various trajectories of fashionable representation and self-representation in literature, sculpture, psychoanalysis, philosophy, religious history, rhetoric, and global politics.

Contents:

On style : a reader's guide / Anna Kłosowska

Without style / Valerie Allen

Lacan's belles-lettres : on difficulty and beauty / Ruth Evans

Style as third element / Anna Kłosowska

Daniel's smile / Kathleen Biddick

To peach or not to peach : style and the interpersonal / Michael D. Snediker

The aesthetics of style and the politics of identity formation / Gila Aloni

Renegade style : fashion and the (non)modern subject-object in Massinger's The Renegado / Jessica Roberts Frazier

Always accessorize : in defense of scholarly cointise / Christine Neufeld

The unceasing call of style : a novelist's perspective / Valerie Vogrin.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

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Print version:

OCLC:

1176454998