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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, New York
The Wallflower Avant-Garde argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Queer Ekphrasis -- 1....
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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. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Queer Ekphrasis -- 1. Gertrude Stein's Eye Lessons: Portraits and Pedagogy -- 2. The Ekphrastic Vice: Djuna Barnes's Spatial Form -- 3. Squandering Your Potential with Richard Bruce Nugent -- 4. Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots -- 5. John Ashbery's Shyness, or, Lateral Ekphrasis -- Epilogue: Eagerly Still -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
