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Throw yourself away : writing and masochism /

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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarcho, Julia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2024].
Series:Thinking literature.
Subjects:
Sadomasochism in literature.
Masochism in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
American literature > Themes, motives.
European literature > History and criticism.
European literature > Themes, motives.
Authorship > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Another book about masochism
  • "You're not a masochist": sadism, realism, and fantasy in Gaitskill, Deleuze, and Freud
  • Cruel theater: Hedda Gabler and "Nona Vincent"
  • "Caught fire in my mind": Adrienne Kennedy's intimacies of negation
  • "With both hands": autotheory's masochistic theater
  • Pure love
  • Curtains.