David Foster Wallace and the Body

ISBN-13: 9781032092546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Peter Sloane

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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