Peter Sloane

David Foster Wallace and the Body

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781032092546
• ISBN-10: 1032092548
• Artikelnr.: 62153297

Autorenporträt

Dr. Peter Sloane is Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - It is at the Level of the Body that We Proceed
1. Corporeal Punishment: The Body as Agent (Provocateur)
2. Écorché Style: David Foster Wallace's Anatomical Poetics
3. Frantic Pistons and Yielding Curves: Gender and the (Com)modification of
Desire
4. Hideously Defective: Disfigurement, Disability, and 'Crip Humour'
5. Weak Evils: The Ageing Body
6. So Much Vapor Aloft: Drugs, (Idio-)Disincarnation, and
Idio-Metempsychosis
Conclusion - It is at the Level of the Body that We Conclude
Bibliography