The contemporary problem of style
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5726240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Robinson (0000-0001-9737-3812, Swansea University), Barry Sheils (Durham University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 473-500 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510 |
| OpenAlex | W4224269276 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay sets the parameters of this special issue on the contemporary problem of style. Noting that the critical term style has returned to discursive prominence in recent years, the introduction explores the peculiarity of its status in literary studies. Asking how style underlies our critical practice today, we track the partially conflicting genealogies of style and the variety of its disciplinary relations. We explore the problem of style now: in its modernist inheritances; its association to class and nationality, especially Englishness; its reconfiguration through world Englishes and the global novel; its coupling with new aestheticism and new formalism; its recasting as a problem of receptivity and attachment in the era of ‘post-critique’; its intimate connection to shame, affect and embodiment (given especial impetus by critical race theory and sexuality studies); and its persistent association with subcultures and the scandalous pleasures of ‘lifestyle’
Aestheticism · Aesthetics · Art · Discipline · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Immigration · Linguistics · Literature · Nationality · Political science · Rhetoric · Shame · Social science · Sociology · Writing style · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |