The wallflower avant-garde [electronic resource] : modernism, sexuality, and queer ekphrasis / Brian Glavey.
Glavey, Brian, author.
2016
PS228.M63 G57 2016eb
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Title The wallflower avant-garde [electronic resource] : modernism, sexuality, and queer ekphrasis / Brian Glavey.
Author Glavey, Brian, author.
ISBN 9780190202675 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190202651
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190202651 doi
Call Number PS228.M63 G57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9112
Summary This title argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrastic writing nonetheless also involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This book suggests that this particular interplay between imitation and autonomy resonates with many of the foundational insights of queer theory: the way it situates identity as an effect of performativity, artifice, and mimesis.
Note This title argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrastic writing nonetheless also involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This book suggests that this particular interplay between imitation and autonomy resonates with many of the foundational insights of queer theory: the way it situates identity as an effect of performativity, artifice, and mimesis.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 9, 2015).
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