Revisiting Style in Literary and Cultural Studies

The collected volume brings together leading scholars from a broad range of disciplines in the humanities to interrogate the productivity of style as an element of cultural expression and a parameter of cultural analysis. Despite its ubiquity in examinations of artistic singularity or postulations of epochal patterns, style remains a notoriously elusive concept. Suspicious of monolithic definitions, the contributions assembled in this volume address style from a multiplicity of methodological and conceptual angles, drawing from fields that include literary studies, film and media studies, post-structuralist philosophy, philosophy of science, and American cultural studies.

Do Signs Have Styles? (James Williams) - Deleuze on Style (Ronald Bogue) - Félix Guattari and the Problem of Style (Henning Schmidgen) - Derrida's Gestures of Circumspection (Martin Roussel) - Styles of Practice in Philosophy and Mathematical Science (David Holdsworth) - Nonhuman Queerings (Patricia MacCormack) - Hanjo Berressem's Luminous Philosophy (Jan Jagodzinski) - On Rhythmic Style (Bernd Herzogenrath) - Gender, Boxing and Masculinities (Norbert Finzsch) - Free Style Skateboarding (Bryan Reynolds) - Walking and Falling in Style (Karin Harrasser) - Ruth Fulton Benedict's Style (Philipp Schweighauser) - Wearing Western Shirts (Konstantin Butz) - Suburban Chic and the 1980s (Sarah Wasserman) - Film Style in French Melodrama (Wolfram Nitsch) - (Re)Presenting the Holocaust (Lutz Ellrich) - Objective, Burma! (Tom Conley) - [Non]Style is Feeling (Nadine Boljkovac Berressem) - Michaux and Mescaline (Paul Harris) - The Contiguity between Marianne Moore and Susan Sontag (Sabine Sielke) - A Beginning of Pop Literary Communication (Torsten Hahn) - Style as Grace (Günter Blamberger) - Pynchon's Stylistic Transformations (Heinz Ickstadt) - Style in Gravity's Rainbow (Jeff Baker) - Pynchon's Wardrobe of Weirdness (Sascha Pöhlmann)