The wallflower avant-garde : modernism, sexuality, and queer ekphrasis / Brian Glavey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glavey, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Ekphrasis.

Art in literature.

Queer theory--United States.

Queer theory.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--United States.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrastic writing nonetheless also involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This book suggests that this particular interplay between imitation and autonomy resonates with many of the foundational insights of queer theory: the way it situates identity as an effect of performativity, artifice, and mimesis.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Queer Ekphrasis""; ""1. Gertrude Stein's Eye Lessons: Portraits and Pedagogy""; ""2. The Ekphrastic Vice: Djuna Barnes's Spatial Form""; ""3. Squandering Your Potential with Richard Bruce Nugent""; ""4. Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots""; ""5. John Ashbery's Shyness, or, Lateral Ekphrasis""; ""Epilogue: Eagerly Still""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-049326-7

0-19-020267-X

0-19-020266-1