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Double Talk - The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (Hardcover)
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Double Talk - The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Literature and Sexuality
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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, in order either to express or to evade homosexual feelings.
Their writing becomes a textual intercourse, the book at once a
female body they can share and the child of their partnership.
These man-made texts steal a generative power that women's bodies
seem to represent. Seen as the site of a struggle between
homosexual and homophobic energies, the texts Koestenbaum explores
- works of psychoanalysis, sexology, fiction, and poetry - emerge
as more complex, more revealing. They crystallize and refract the
anxiety of male sexuality at the end of the last century, and open
up a deeper understanding of connections today between the erotic
and the literary. Drawing upon the work of feminist critics,
Koestenbaum connects male collaboration and the exchange of women
within patriarchy: he peers into both medical texts and imaginative
literature, disturbing our ready acceptance of the co-authored
work. This strong and unsettling book transforms our understanding
of the creative process, providing a new sense of what both
collaborative and solitary artistry mean.
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