Style: A Queer Cosmology

Contents\nIntroduction: The Elementals of Style\nPart I. The Mystery of Personality: Queerness as Style\nIntroduction\n1. Quentin Crisp, Queen of the Birds: On Queerness, Repetition, and Style\n2. It Takes a Sheep: Flannery O’Connor’s Backward Prophets\nPart II. The Arrow of Time: Style and the Problems of History and Originality\nIntroduction\n3. The Poe Machine: Style and the Strange Futures of American Literary Studies\n4. Shadow Kingdom: A Bob Dylan Ghost Story\nPart III.The Critic as Stylist: Toward a Theory of Attunement\nIntroduction\n5. The Musical (Re)Turn: Listening in American Literary Criticism\n6. The Intensive Zone: Pragmatism, Postmaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Other Forms of Belief as Method\n7. Ambivalence and Attunement: On Our Field Formations and Deformations\nCoda: The Universe That Encloses the Universe\nAcknowledgments\nNotes\nIndex\nAbout the Author