10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STYLELESSNESS»
Discover the use of
stylelessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stylelessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
It is to combat the stylelessness of Mr. Wells and so many other contemporary
writers that the destructive kind of criticism is just now most necessary. For,
dangerous as the heresy of style was forty o1' fifty years ago, the newer heresy of
...
For, dangerous as the heresy of style was forty or fifty years ago, the newer
heresy of stylelessness is more dangerous still. it has become the custom even of
men who write well to be as ashamed of their style as a school-boy is of being
caught ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1913
It is to combat the stylelessness of many contemporary writers that the destructive
kind of criticism is just now most necessary. For, dangerous as the heresy of style
was forty or fifty years ago, the newer heresy of sylelessness is more ...
4
Television As An instrument of Terror
Since society is based upon communication and people being clear about their
roles and other people's roles, stylelessness creates confusion. Stylelessness is
self-defeating, since when everyone is competing for attention by dressing ...
5
Liberace: An American Boy
85 He was open to the way counterculture stylelessness could become style in
itself. It was, however, a major, conscious transformation. Rejecting the age's
insistence on naturalness and stylelessness, he also repudiated “kookiness,” as
he ...
Darden Asbury Pyron, 2013
musicians, fellow artists, even politicians, sought him out, drawn to his
freewheeling energy, generous imagination, stylish stylelessness. In the summer
of 1954 he began to make large plaster figures; Jackson Pollock, no slouch when
it comes ...
7
Writing After War : American War Fiction from Realism to ...
Mailer, once he had achieved celebrity with the publication of The Naked and the
Dead, seems to have regretted its stylelessness: "I knew I was no stylist. I think
one of the reasons I became a stylist was precisely because I had so poor a ...
John Limon Associate Professor of English and American Studies Williams College, 1994
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The Objects of Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture
This reflects what mightbe called an attack onstyleoran example ofthe
development of a sense of stylelessness that isfound in theway that people keep
reinventing themselves and changing their identities. Mike Featherstone
discusses this ...
9
The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays
Early listeners to Mahler were distressed to find no such signature in his music;
on the contrary, he seemed to write in many styles. He was accused of“
stylelessness” (Stillosigkeit), and Adorno turned this jibe in his favor, arguing that
this very ...
10
The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and ...
... of the modern metropolis, nor the Americanism of a superficial (surface) culture
that emphasizes size and quantity. Some of the specific ascriptions of cultural
attributes to Berlin, and Vienna — Prussian- American stylelessness in Berlin ...
Gyan Prakash, Kevin Michael Kruse, 2008
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STYLELESSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
stylelessness is used in the context of the following news items.
This church conversion has form and function preserved
Architectural conservationists have traditionally counted it a victory, for example, when the concrete bones and workaday stylelessness of an old warehouse ... «The Globe and Mail, Nov 14»
Fascinating Photos of Paris in the Mid-19th Century
Many find this way of working appealing, the idea of the city itself as the author rather than the picture-maker—the stylelessness of it,” Rosenheim said. «Slate Magazine, Feb 14»
Pit stop photography: take a road trip to America's vintage gas stations
As Campany notes in an interview included in Gasoline, the very "stylelessness" of Ruscha's images has become their defining aspect. "The problem is that ... «The Guardian, Sep 13»
Tom Phillips: Wise words from a free spirit
In fact, as he would be the first to tell us if asked, his work seems to be the very epitome of stylelessness. There is no consistent Phillips manner. He built up quite ... «The Independent, Sep 13»
No Self-Mockery, Please, We're American
The United States is one of the few places where stylelessness has become a style, cultivated with all the passion and precision of a Woolf or a Joyce. «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jun 13»
How I Celebrated My Goth Mitzvah (And How To Do Goth As A …
A period of virtual stylelessness followed, during which I dressed to blend in. But my favorite music has always been on the darker side of things, from synth-pop ... «TheGloss, Mar 13»
BREATHLESS Review Pt.2 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
But this so-called style is really stylelessness. To claim that stylelesssness is artistic is akin to claiming formless Dave Eggersian puerility as a writing style. «Alt Film Guide, Mar 11»
