Style in Theory

Gloria Lauri-Lucente is Director of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, Head of the Department of Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta, Malta.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: 'Style in Theory and Practice: Literature, Philosophy, and Writing the Space Between' Ivan Callus, James Corby, Gloria Lauri-Lucente1. Style in Theory - Styling Theory Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania)2. Style in Deconstruction Laurent Milesi (Cardiff University)3. Style and History in Diderot and Winckelmann Saul Anton (The New School & Pratt)4. Petrarch and the Birth of Style Gloria Lauri-Lucente (University of Malta)5. Style, Rhetoric and Identity in Shakespearean Soliloquy Stuart Sillars (University of Bergen)6. Theory ... For Life Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University)7. Style is the Man: Meillassoux, Heidegger and Finitude James Corby (University of Malta)8. Style and Arrogance: The Ethics of Heidegger's Style Chris Muller (Cardiff University)9. Nietzsche, Style, Body Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University)10. Style in communication: The Hip Swing of Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés Fiona Hughes (University of Essex)11. Writing without (Re)Styl(e)(ing) : Hélène Cixous on the Path of Error Janice Sant (Cardiff University)12. Deleuze or the V-Effect: Philosophy on a Mobile Cusp Marie-Dominique Garnier (Université de Paris-8 Vincennes-à-St-Denis)13. 'This song to come, this reader to become': Reading Blanchot's Style of Paradox in 'René Char' Mario Aquilina (Durham University)14. Learning to Style Finally: Lateness in Theory Ivan Callus (University of Malta)Afterword Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale)NotesBibliographyIndex

Does style matter? It is a question that goes right to the heart of the traditionally fraught relationship between literature and philosophy. Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy is an important and timely collection of essays that answers this question with an emphatic and compelling ‘yes'. Offering an impressive range of profound and engaging reflections on the question of style in its various literary and philosophical manifestations, Style in Theory shows us why we ought to be thinking about style differently.