UID:
almahu_9949383561802882
Format:
1 online resource (203 pages)
ISBN:
9780429286483
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0429286481
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9781000015218
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1000015211
,
9781000008692
,
100000869X
,
9781000001853
,
1000001857
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 32
Content:
"David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author's works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a 'human being'. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire 'to be reconciled'"--
Note:
Introduction : it is at the level of the body that we proceed -- Corporeal punishment : the body as agent (provocateur) -- Écorché style : David Foster Wallace's anatomical poetics -- Frantic pistons and yielding curves : gender and the (com)modification of desire -- Hideously defective : disfigurement, disability, and "crip humour" -- Weak evils : the ageing body -- So much vapor aloft : drugs, (idio- )disincarnation, and idio-metempsychosis.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sloane, Peter. David Foster Wallace and the body. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367225223
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429286483
