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OverviewSigmund 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wayne KoestenbaumPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: 1 Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780415790079ISBN 10: 0415790077 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 11 April 2017 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsInterpreting 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 SiècleReviewsAuthor InformationWayne Koestenbaum Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |