Format:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350117792
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9781350117785
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9781350117778
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9781350117778
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9781350117761
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1350117781
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1350117773
Series Statement:
New horizons in contemporary writing
Content:
Responsibility: Investing against Pornification -- Risk: Securitizing Male Homosexuality -- Contract: Gazing within Masochism -- Property: Privatizing Feminist Critique -- Austerity: Sacrificing and Scapegoating Little Men -- Conclusion.
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
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350117761
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jackson, Edward, (Professor of literature) David Foster Wallace's toxic sexuality London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350117792
