http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/style The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/brain-food <p>Virginia Woolf eats two big meals in the first chapter <i>A Room of One’s Own</i> (1929). The first is just big. The second is big in its impact.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/brain-food">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/brain-food#comments A Room of One&#039;s Own A.S. Byatt excerption food intellectual life money style Virginia Woolf http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1147 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:18:44 -0800 Claire Bowen 1147 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/mi%C3%A9ville-marvell-two-melvilles-and-others-narrative-iii-ordering-of-preferences <p><b>Miéville and Marvell</b></p> <p>I love this moment in China Miéville's <i>The City &amp; the City</i>: The narrator (for this is an I-book), Inspector Tyador Borlu, is a noir cop in a fictional Balkan capital, Corwi is his assistant, and in their language <i>aj Tyrko</i> means Turkish-style:</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/mi%C3%A9ville-marvell-two-melvilles-and-others-narrative-iii-ordering-of-preferences">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/mi%C3%A9ville-marvell-two-melvilles-and-others-narrative-iii-ordering-of-preferences#comments Andrew Marvell Breach China Miéville Critique of Judgment Dashiell Hammett Decision Theory Dong QiChang film noir Georges Bataille Helter Skelter Herman Melville James M. Cain Jean-Pierre Melville Jim Morrison Julie Taymor Kant Le Cercle Rouge Mrs. Dalloway narrators pastoral Piaget potlatch Proust Raymond Chandler Robert Mitchum sexual selection Stieg Larrson style The Beatles The City &amp; the City the Clash the Who Wallace Stevens William Empson Woolf http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1091 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:26:08 -0800 William Flesch 1091 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/pomposity <p>Hagiography is a lot easier when the saint has had the sense to shut up. William of Malmesbury’s book on the life and miracles of St Aldhelm was held back by two things: not enough written about the saint, and too much written by him. William’s problem wasn’t the quantity of Aldhelm’s writings so much as their style, although he made a valiant attempt to defend it:</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/pomposity">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/pomposity#comments History and Historical Consciousness Latinity style http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1076 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:55:00 -0800 Emily Thornbury 1076 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/style-or-substance <p>In <a href="/forest-architecture" target="_blank">&quot;Forest Architecture,&quot;</a> Allison Carruth notes the possibilities of a new kind of sustainable architecture. But her conclusion is key, particularly, that the scale of these bulidings may be more transformative than their style. Perhaps the new sustainable design should have as its motto, &quot;more style, less substance.&quot;</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/style-or-substance">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/style-or-substance#comments architecture bodies in space Salvage style Sustainability http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/451 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:09:21 -0800 Laura Crescimano 451 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/huddling-together-nervously-loquacious <p>Kenneth Burke, <i>P</i><i>ermanence and Change</i> (1935): “[Men] build their cultures by huddling together, nervously loquacious, at the edge of an abyss&quot; (272). What was behind the distinctive style of loquaciousness which was once so popular for actors — and most strikingly female ones — in the Hollywood comedies of the 1930s?</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/huddling-together-nervously-loquacious">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/huddling-together-nervously-loquacious#comments Film style http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/377 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:24:36 -0700 Sianne Ngai 377 at http://arcade.stanford.edu