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The Wallflower Avant-Garde - Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis (Hardcover)
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The Wallflower Avant-Garde - Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis (Hardcover)
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The Wallflower Avant-Garde 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 also
involves excess, failure, and mimesis, conjuring an aesthetic sense
of closure and unity out of impossible imitations. This
choreography of 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. Unlike many
queer theorists, however, this book insists that we value both the
imitations and the aspirations that guide them, underlining not
only the illusoriness of identity but also its allure. This more
capacious formalism allows aspects of modernists aesthetic that
have seemed regressive or repressive to be read as generative forms
of stasis, quiet, reserve, shyness, and so on.
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