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At the end of this study of the event of style in literature, it may be worth returning to and remaining a little more persistently with the question of the applicability of the arguments and analyses proposed. In other words, what now? What should one make of the temporality or the historical circumstances of the ‘event’ of style that I have argued is central to the work of Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot, Derrida, Celan and others? The following discussion will have to be brief, and it works more as an initial exploration of the implications of this study for further thinking about style than a definitive last word about the issue.
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Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude, trans. Ray Brassier (London: Continuum, 2008) 1.
For a critical discussion of the implications of Meillassoux’s work to style, see James Corby, ‘Style is the Man: Meillassoux, Heidegger, and Finitude’, in Ivan Callus, James Corby and Gloria Lauri-Lucente, Eds., Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy (London: Bloomsbury 2013) 163–186.
Ina Blom, On the Style Site: Art, Sociality, and Media Culture (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2007) 111.
Andrew Benjamin, Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006) ix.
See, for example, Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (London and New York: Routledge, 1988)
Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004)
Barry Brummett, A Rhetoric of Style (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 2008)
Richard A. Lanham, The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006).
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Aquilina, M. (2014). Conclusion. In: The Event of Style in Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426925_7
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