Wallflower Avant-Garde: Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis

by Brian Glavey

The Wallflower Avant-Garde highlights a strain of formalism visible in both modernist literature and contemporary queer studies, drawing attention to an aesthetic that is as quiet and quirky as it is queer. In studies of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Richard Bruce Nugent, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery, Brian Glavey argues for a recalibrated understanding of the relation between sexuality and the aesthetic, revealing a non-oppositional avant-gardism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190202653
• ISBN13: 9780190202651
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"