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

Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2017] ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge Library Editions: Literature and Sexuality ; v. 1 Contents Interpreting Double Talk: An Introduction -- Part I. Men of Science -- 1. Privileging the Anus: Anna O. and the Collaborative Origin of Psychoanalysis -- 2 Unlocking Symonds: Sexual Inversion -- Part II. 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 III. The Hour of Double Talk -- 5. Manuscript Affairs: Collaborative Romances of the Fin de Siècle 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 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc English literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism Authorship -- Collaboration -- Psychological aspects Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain Male authors, English -- Sexual behavior Male authors, English -- Psychology Psychoanalysis and literature. Men -- Psychology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Authorship -- Collaboration -- Psychological aspects English literature -- Male authors Homosexuality and literature Male authors, English -- Psychology Male authors, English -- Sexual behavior Men -- Psychology Psychoanalysis and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351818674 1351818678 9781315213460 131521346X 9781351818667 135181866X 9781351818650 1351818651

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