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Description of  Style: A Queer Cosmology (Postmillennial Pop, 37)

Assembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental nature of style While 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 Blacks 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 OConnor, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Dylan. Presiding throughout is the books 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 attunementrevitalizing figures, terms, and ideas that have become too familiar. Returning to viewing the critic as a stylist, Read more