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Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style

Robinson, Richard; Sheils, Barry

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Richard Robinson



Abstract

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, it tracks the partially conflicting genealogies of style and the variety of its disciplinary relations. It explores 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’.

Citation

Robinson, R., & Sheils, B. (2022). Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 13, 2021
Online Publication Date Apr 8, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Jan 5, 2022
Publicly Available Date Oct 9, 2023
Journal Textual Practice
Print ISSN 0950-236X
Electronic ISSN 1470-1308
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue 4
Pages 473-500
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1219458

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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Textual Practice. Robinson, Richard & Sheils, Barry (2022). Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style. Textual Practice 36(4): 473-500. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.





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