Double talk : the erotics of male literary collaboration / Wayne Koestenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koestenbaum, Wayne, author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Male authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

English literature--Male authors--History and criticism.

Authorship--Collaboration--Psychological aspects.

Authorship.

Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain.

Homosexuality and literature.

Male authors, English--Sexual behavior.

Male authors, English.

Male authors, English--Psychology.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Men--Psychology.

Men.

English literature--Male authors.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1989.

Summary:

"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 Exra 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 to either 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 made-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 coauthored work. -- This strong and unsettleing book transforms our understanding of the creative process, providing a new sense of what both collaborative and solitary artistry mean." from back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Koestenbaum, Wayne. Double talk.

ISBN:

041590109X

9780415901093

0415901103

9780415901109

OCLC:

19324794