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David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

Autor Dr Edward Jackson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350249295
ISBN-10: 1350249297
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Covers the full range of David Foster Wallace's writings, from short stories to the major novels including Infinite Jest

Notă biografică

Edward Jackson holds a PhD in English from the University of Birmingham. He currently teaches literature and cultural studies as a Visiting Lecturer.

Cuprins

Introduction 1. Responsibility: Investing Against Pornification 2. Risk: Securitising Male Homosexuality 3. Contract: Gazing Through Masochism 3. Property: Privatising Feminist Critique 5. Austerity: Sacrificing and Scapegoating Little MenConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Edward Jackson's emergence as a key new voice in Wallace criticism rests, in part, on both his rigorous scholarship and his clear-eyed perception of what's wrong with the critical lenses that too many readers have accepted without question. David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality is an elegantly written and meticulous study that addresses challenging questions-about gender and economics-with typically lively and innovative readings.