Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835030 ISBN 13: 9780226835037
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Proposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works conceive writing itself as masochistic, and masochism as sexuality enacted in writing. Throw Yourself Away is distinctive in its sustained focus on masochism as an engine of literary production across multiple authors and genres. In particular, Jarcho shows that theater has played a central role in modern erotic fantasies of the literary. Jarcho foregrounds writing as a project of distressed subjects: When masochistic writing is examined as a strategy of response to injurious social systems, it yields a surprisingly feminized--and less uniformly white--image of both masochism and authorship. Ultimately, Jarcho argues that a retheorized concept of masochism helps us understand literature itself as a sex act and shows us how writing can tend to our burdened, desirous bodies. With startling insights into writers such as Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Mary Gaitskill, and Adrienne Kennedy, Throw Yourself Away furnishes a new masochistic theory of literature itself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The University Of Chicago Press Sep 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835030 ISBN 13: 9780226835037
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Throw Yourself Away proposes that we can best understand literature's connection to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works conceive writing itself as masochistic, and masochism as sexuality enacted in writing. Today, masochistic sex is ubiquitous even in mainstream media, proving itself compatible with the most orthodox heteronormative narratives-'basic' indeed. Jarcho's aim is to specify masochism, accounting for its importance in a wide swath of writing life, without relying on the assumption of masochism's inherent subversiveness. Ultimately, she argues that a retheorized concept of masochism helps us understand literature itself as a sex act and shows us how writing can tend to our burdened, desirous bodies. With startling insights into writers from Henry James to Mary Gaitskill, Throw Yourself Away is a significant addition to the Thinking Literature series'.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835030 ISBN 13: 9780226835037
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. Proposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works conceive writing itself as masochistic, and masochism as sexuality enacted in writing. Throw Yourself Away is distinctive in its sustained focus on masochism as an engine of literary production across multiple authors and genres. In particular, Jarcho shows that theater has played a central role in modern erotic fantasies of the literary. Jarcho foregrounds writing as a project of distressed subjects: When masochistic writing is examined as a strategy of response to injurious social systems, it yields a surprisingly feminized--and less uniformly white--image of both masochism and authorship. Ultimately, Jarcho argues that a retheorized concept of masochism helps us understand literature itself as a sex act and shows us how writing can tend to our burdened, desirous bodies. With startling insights into writers such as Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Mary Gaitskill, and Adrienne Kennedy, Throw Yourself Away furnishes a new masochistic theory of literature itself. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835030 ISBN 13: 9780226835037
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Proposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works conceive writing itself as masochistic, and masochism as sexuality enacted in writing. Throw Yourself Away is distinctive in its sustained focus on masochism as an engine of literary production across multiple authors and genres. In particular, Jarcho shows that theater has played a central role in modern erotic fantasies of the literary. Jarcho foregrounds writing as a project of distressed subjects: When masochistic writing is examined as a strategy of response to injurious social systems, it yields a surprisingly feminized--and less uniformly white--image of both masochism and authorship. Ultimately, Jarcho argues that a retheorized concept of masochism helps us understand literature itself as a sex act and shows us how writing can tend to our burdened, desirous bodies. With startling insights into writers such as Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Mary Gaitskill, and Adrienne Kennedy, Throw Yourself Away furnishes a new masochistic theory of literature itself. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835030 ISBN 13: 9780226835037
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Published by University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835022 ISBN 13: 9780226835020
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Published by University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835022 ISBN 13: 9780226835020
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Published by University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835022 ISBN 13: 9780226835020
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Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0801844665 ISBN 13: 9780801844669
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xviii, 354 pages : illustrations, 24 cm. "The history of cinchona has traditionally begun with the romantic - and now discredited - story of Francisca Henriquez Ribera, the Countess of Chinchon. According to legend, the Countess became seriously ill during an outbreak of fever in Lima around 1623. Her husband, the Viceroy, learning of a medicinal tree bark used by the local Indians, ordered the bark tested and administered to his wife. Following her prompt recovery, the Countess championed the use of bark among the general populace, and thousands of lives were saved. The drug became known as pulvis Comitissae, the powder of the Countess, and later - misspelled by Linnaeus - as cinchona.In Quinine's Predecessor Saul Jarcho unravels a tangle of myth, hearsay, and fact to establish the definitive history of cinchona bark - the still-important source of modern quinine. Jarcho explains the discovery of the healing property of the substance, also known as Peruvian bark or Jesuits' bark, and traces the routes by which it was transmitted from South America to Spain and other countries." - Johns Hopkins University Press.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835022 ISBN 13: 9780226835020
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Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0226835022 ISBN 13: 9780226835020
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Hardcover. Condition: NEW. Hardcover. Proposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism. In a series of readings that engage American and European works of fiction, drama, and theory from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, critic and playwright Julia Jarcho argues that these works conceive writing itself as masochistic, and masochism as sexuality enacted in writing. Throw Yourself Away is distinctive in its sustained focus on masochism as an engine of literary production across multiple authors and genres. In particular, Jarcho shows that theater has played a central role in modern erotic fantasies of the literary. Jarcho foregrounds writing as a project of distressed subjects: When masochistic writing is examined as a strategy of response to injurious social systems, it yields a surprisingly feminized-and less uniformly white-image of both masochism and authorship. Ultimately, Jarcho argues that a retheorized concept of masochism helps us understand literature itself as a sex act and shows us how writing can tend to our burdened, desirous bodies. With startling insights into such writers as Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Mary Gaitskill, and Adrienne Kennedy, Throw Yourself Away furnishes a new masochistic theory of literature itself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0801844665 ISBN 13: 9780801844669
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