Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture Tapa dura - 2022

Hardback. New. Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic-the privileging of mind over body, of hard over soft, of masculine over feminine-is at the heart of the modernist style. Her argument ranges from Plato to women's bodybuilding, from Franz Kafka to Nike ads. In penetrating examinations of Kafka, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Conrad, Heywood demonstrates how the anorexic aesthetic is embodied in high modernism. In a compelling chapter on Jean Rhys, Heywood portrays an author who struggles to develop a clean, spare, "anorexic" style in the midst of a shatteringly messy emotional life. As Heywood points out, students are trained in the aesthetic of high modernism, and academics are pressured into its straitjacket. The… Leer más

University of California Press, 2022. Hardcover. New. 260 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.80 inches.

University of California Press, 2022. Hardcover. New. 260 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.80 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.