Dedication to Hunger The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture 1st Edition by Leslie Heywood 0520310322 9780520310322

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ISBN 10: 0520310322 

ISBN 13: 9780520310322

Author: Leslie Heywood

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 resulting complications are reflected in structures as diverse as gender identity formation, sexual harassment, and eating disorders. Direct, engaging, and intensely informed by the author’s personal involvement with her subject, Dedication to Hunger offers a powerful challenge to cultural assumptions about language, gender, subjectivity, and identity. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Table of contents:

Chapter One Clarice Got Her Gun Tracking the Anorexic Horizon

I. Personal Bodies. Struggles. Contexts. Legends.

II. Historical Contexts. Limits. Positions. Anorexic Philosophy: Descartes, Plato, Hegel, Freud.

III. Consumer Culture. Nike. The Relentless Logic of the Gym.

IV. Philosophical Anorexics: The Flip Side

Chapter Two From Female Disease to Textual Ideal, or Whats Modernism Got to Do with It

II. The Metaphysics of the Flame: Fasting Girls, Kafkas

IV. He Who Embraces the Flesh: Anorexia and Gender in Williams

Chapter Three “Should Be Out of It”

L Text over Flesh: Heart of Darkness and the Fat Man

II. Fat Is Primitive: Anorexia as Historical Progress in Falk

Chapter Four Missing Persons The Black Hole of the Feminine in Jean Rhys

I. Rhys’s Life: Booze and Black Holes

II. The “Problem with No Name” (Reprise): The Constitution of Female Subjectivity in the Black Hole

III. Jean Bhys, Sexual Harassment, and the Academy: Manifestations of the “First Death,” or Clipping Your Students HYPERLINK l “noteT_9_1” 9 Wings

IV. Beyond Negation (?): Wide Sargasso Sea

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