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David Foster Wallace and the body
- Title
- David Foster Wallace and the body / Peter Sloane.
- Author
- Sloane, Peter
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- 203 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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'"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 32
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 32.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9764
- ISBN
- 9780367225223
- 0367225220
- LCCN
- 2019009742
- OCLC
- 1084334761
- Author
- Sloane, Peter, author.
- Title
- David Foster Wallace and the body / Peter Sloane.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 32Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 32.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780415005661
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9764