Style (eBook)

A Queer Cosmology

Taylor Black (Autor)

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2023
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2501-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Cosmology defines 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 from American culture that engage in ethical, creative, and performative modes of what he terms abundant revelation. Moving back and forth through time, this book sketches American cosmologies cultivated by iconic and subterranean American artists like Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O Connor, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Dylan. Presiding throughout is the book s conceptual guide: latter-day American and notorious homosexual Quentin Crisp, resurrected here as a philosopher of style.As a scholarly intervention, Style participates in the critical work of revival and attunement revitalizing figures, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Postmillennial Pop
• Reihe/Serie: Postmillennial Pop
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: autotheory • Bob Dylan • books about personal style • Books about queer Performance • books about queer performance art • books about queer style • books about Quentin Crisp • books about style • Edgar Allan Poe • effeminate style • Flannery O’Connor • Nikki Giovanni • performance studies • personal style • philosophy of style • postcritique • queer identity • queer performance artists • Queer Performance Studies • queer performance theory • queer personal style • Queer style • Queer Theory • Quentin Crisp • Quentin Crisp style • style and identity • Toni Morrison
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-2501-8 / 1479825018
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-2501-1 / 9781479825011