On Style: An Atelier
About this ebook
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Eileen
A. Joy, “On Style: A Prefatory Note” — Anna Kłosowska, “On Style: A
Reader’s Guide” — Valerie Allen, “Without Style” — Ruth Evans, “Lacan’s belles-lettres:
On Difficulty and Beauty” — Anna Klosowska, “Style as Third Element” —
Kathleen Biddick, “Daniel’s Smile” — Michael D. Snediker, “To Peach or
Not to Peach: Style and the Interpersonal” — Gila Aloni, “The Aesthetics
of Style and the Politics of Identity Formation” — Jessica Roberts
Frazier, “Renegade Style: Fashion and the (Non)modern Subject-Object in
Massinger’s The Renegado” — Christine Neufeld, “Always Accessorize: In Defense of Scholarly Cointise” — Valerie Vogrin, “The Unceasing Call of Style: A Novelist’s Perspective”
About the author
Eileen A. Joy is the Director of punctum books and has published widely on medieval literature, cultural studies, intellectual and literary history, ethics, the post/human, and speculative realism. She is the co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies and O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies, and is also the Lead Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group. She is also the co-editor of The Postmodern Beowulf (West Virginia University Press, 2007), Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2007), Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (punctum, 2012) and Speculative Medievalisms: Discography (punctum, 2013).
Anna Klosowska is Professor of French at Miami University, author of Queer Love in the Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2005), and editor of Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Selected Poems and Translations (Chicago, 2007) and Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts (Florida, 1998). Author of over 20 articles on queer theory and premodern literature, she is also on the editorial boards of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary and postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.