216 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Dr. Peter Sloane is Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, England.
