Style in theory : between literature and philosophy / edited by Ivan Callus, James Corby and Gloria Lauri-Lucente.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Style as polemics; 2 Petrarch and the birth of style in the Collatio laureationis and the Familiares; 3 Style, rhetoric, and identity in Shakespearean soliloquy; 4 Style and history in Diderot and Winckelmann; 5 Nietzsche, style, body; The problem of style in early Nietzsche; The exteriority of will to power; Parodies, masks, wanderings; 6 Crimes against fecundity: Style and crime, from Joyce to Poe and back; Le style, c'est l'homme même; Le style c'est la femme même; Le style, c'est le crime même.

7 Style and arrogance: The ethics of Heidegger's styleIntroduction: Style and the desolation of responsibility; The question of being as a question of style; Style as ethics: The task of seeing in thinking; 8 Style is the man: Meillassoux, Heidegger, and finitude; Correlated style; Dasein styles; Style: Our impossible possibility; 9 Style in communication: The hip swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés; Style in communication and the limitations of theory; The hip swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés; 10 St!le-in-deconstruction; Introduction; Flori-legium : What was style (,) in theory.

Spurring style: DerridaStyle-in-deconstruction; The retrait of style; 11 "This song to come, this reader to become": The style of paradoxical anachrony in Blanchot's "René Char"; 12 V for style: Gilles Deleuze on a mobile cusp; On the "mobile cusp" of style; V for Deleuze: The point of reading; Imaging thought; Deleuze in V points; "Fuite" into "flight": Style-in-translation; 13 Styling theory à la mode cixousienne; 14 Theory ... for life; Style devie -life, in theory; Theory for life, that is to say . . .; Life-writing; 15 Learning to style finally: Lateness 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 tra.

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