Style in Theory

'What, in theory, is style? How has style been rethought in literary theory?'Drawing together leading academics working within and across the disciplines of English, philosophy, literary theory, and comparative literature, Style in Theory: Between Philosophy and Literature sets out to rethink the important but all-too-often-overlooked issue of style, exploring in particular how the theoretical humanities open conceptual spaces that afford and encourage reflection on the nature of style, the ways in which style is experienced and how style allows disciplinary boundaries to be both drawn and transgressed.Offering incisive reflections on style from a diverse and contemporary range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the essays contained in this volume critically revisit and challenge accepted accounts of style, and provide fresh and compelling readings of the relevance in any rethinking of style of specific works by the likes of Shakespeare, Petrarch, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, Blanchot, Derrida, Nancy, Cixous and Meillassoux.

"[T]he volume makes a valuable contribution to the study of style at the intersection of literature and philosophy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty." - P.I. Vieira, Georgetown University, CHOICE

Explores theories and practices of style in literary studies and philosophy.

'What, in theory, is style? How has style been rethought in literary theory?'

Drawing together leading academics working within and across the disciplines of English, philosophy, literary theory, and comparative literature, Style in Theory: Between Philosophy and Literature sets out to rethink the important but all-too-often-overlooked issue of style, exploring in particular how the theoretical humanities open conceptual spaces that afford and encourage reflection on the nature of style, the ways in which style is experienced and how style allows disciplinary boundaries to be both drawn and transgressed.

Offering incisive reflections on style from a diverse and contemporary range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the essays contained in this volume critically revisit and challenge accepted accounts of style, and provide fresh and compelling readings of the relevance in any rethinking of style of specific works by the likes of Shakespeare, Petrarch, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze, Blanchot, Derrida, Nancy, Cixous and Meillassoux.

Acknowledgements / Notes on Contributors / Introduction: 'Style in Theory and Practice: Literature, Philosophy, and Writing the Space Between' Ivan Callus, James Corby, Gloria Lauri-Lucente / 1. Style in Theory - Styling Theory Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania) / 2. Style in DeconstructionLaurent Milesi (Cardiff University) / 3. Style and History in Diderot and Winckelmann Saul Anton (The New School & Pratt) / 4. Petrarch and the Birth of Style Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta) / 5. Style, Rhetoric and Identity in Shakespearean Soliloquy Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen) / 6. Theory ... For Life Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University) / 7. Style is the Man: Meillassoux, Heidegger and Finitude James Corby (University of Malta) / 8. Style and Arrogance: The Ethics of Heidegger's StyleChris Muller (Cardiff University) / 9. Nietzsche, Style, Body Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University) / 10. Style in communication: The Hip Swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés Fiona Hughes (University of Essex) / 11. Writing without (Re)Styl(e)(ing) : Hélène Cixous on the Path of Error Janice Sant (Cardiff University) / 12. Deleuze or the V-Effect: Philosophy on a Mobile Cusp Marie-Dominique Garnier (Université de Paris-8 Vincennes-à-St-Denis) / 13. 'This song to come, this reader to become': Reading Blanchot's Style of Paradox in 'René Char' Mario Aquilina (Durham University) / 14. Learning to Style Finally: Lateness in Theory Ivan Callus (University of Malta) / Afterword Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale) / Notes / Bibliography / Index