1st Edition

Double Talk The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration

By Wayne Koestenbaum Copyright 1989
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer on hysteria, J.A. Symonds and Havelock Ellis on sexuality, a novel by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad, The Waste Land of T.S. Eliot (and Ezra Pound), even the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge: men making books together. Wayne Koestenbaum's startling interpretation of literary collaboration focuses on homosexual desire: men write together, he argues,... Read more

Interpreting Double Talk: An Introduction.  Part 1. Men of Science  1. Privileging the Anus: Anna O. and the Collaborative Origin of Psychoanalysis  2. Unlocking Symonds: Sexual Inversion  Part 2. Poetic Partnerships  3. The Marinere Hath His Will(iam): Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads  4. The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot’s and Ezra Pound’s Collaboration on Hysteria  Part 3. The Hour of Double Talk  5. Manuscript Affairs: Collaborative Romances of the Fin de Siècle

Biography

Wayne Koestenbaum