Format:
1 Online-Ressource (228 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350117778
,
9781350117792
Series Statement:
New horizons in contemporary writing
Content:
"David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics is the first full-length study of perhaps the most controversial aspect of Wallace's work - male sexuality. Departing from biographical accounts of Wallace's troubled relationship to sex, the book offers new and engaging close readings of this vexed topic in both his fiction and non-fiction. Wallace consistently returns to images of sexual toxicity across his career to argue that, when it comes to sex, men are immutably hideous. He makes this argument by drawing on a variety of neoliberal logics and spermatic metaphors, which in their appeal to apparently neutral economic processes and natural bodily facts, forestall the possibility that men can change. The book therefore provides a revisionist account of Wallace's attitudes towards capitalism, as well as a critical dissection of his approach to masculinity and sexuality. In doing so, David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality shows how Wallace can be considered a neoliberal writer, whose commitment to furthering male sexual toxicity is a disturbing but undeniable part of his literary project"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350117761
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jackson, Edward David Foster Wallace's toxic sexuality London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781350117761
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Wallace, David Foster 1962-2008
;
Sexualverhalten
DOI:
10.5040/9781350117792
