Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sloane, Peter
Titre(s) : David Foster Wallace and the body [Texte imprimé] / Peter Sloane
Publication : New York : Routledge, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (203 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 32
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196) and index
"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 good fiction is about what it means
to be a 'human being'. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being
conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact
with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire 'to be reconciled'"
Sujet(s) : Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008) -- Critique et interprétation
Corps humain -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
813.54 (23e éd.) = Roman américain de langue anglaise - 1945-1999 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367225223. - ISBN 0367225220. - ISBN 9780429286483 (erroné). - ISBN 9780415005661
(erroné). - ISBN 9781000008692 (erroné). - ISBN 9780415005562 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000001853
(erroné). - ISBN 9780415005616 (erroné). - ISBN 9781000015218 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46806898w
Notice n° :
FRBNF46806898
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : it is at the level of the body that we proceed ; Corporeal punishment
: the body as agent (provocateur) ; Écorché style : David Foster Wallace's anatomical
poetics ; Frantic pistons and yielding curves : gender and the (com)modification
of desire ; Hideously defective : disfigurement, disability, and "crip humour" ;
Weak evils : the ageing body ; So much vapor aloft : drugs, (idio-)disincarnation,
and idio-metempsychosis.
