LEADER 06126oam 2201141 a 450 001 9910495879503321 005 20230828224516.0 010 $a0-585-04109-1 035 $a(CKB)111000211185542 035 $a(MH)006495493-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135974 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12046186 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135974 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10063755 035 $a(PQKB)10019437 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211185542 100 $a19950103d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDedication to hunger$ethe anorexic aesthetic in modern culture /$fLeslie Heywood 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 243 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-20117-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-238) and index. 327 $aClaire got her gun: tracking the anorexic horizon. Personal bodies, struggles, contexts, legends -- Historical contexts, limits, positions, anorexic philosophy: Descartes, Plato, Hegel, Freud -- Consumer culture, Nike, the relentless logic of the gym -- Philosophical anorexics: the flip side. From female disease to textual ideal, or what's modernism got to do with it. Inside every fat body there's a thin body struggling to get out: more historical contexts -- The metaphysics of the flame: Fasting Girls, Kafka's Letters to Felice, and "A Hunger Artist" -- "The Female is a chaos": male anorexia in Eliot and Pound -- He who embraces the flesh: anorexia and gender in Williams. "Should be out of it": starving the feminine in Joseph Conrad. Text over flesh: Heart of Darkness and the fat man -- Fat is primitive: anorexia as historical progress in Falk. Missing persons: the black hole of the feminine in Jean Rhys. Rhys's life: booze and black holes -- The "Problem with no name" (reprise): the constitution of female subjectivity in the black hole -- Jean Rhys, sexual harassment and the academy: manifestations of the "First Death", or "Clipping your students wings -- Beyond negation (?): Wide Sargasso Sea. 330 $aIn this passionate merging of personal history and scholarship, Leslie Heywood reveals the "anorexic logic" central to Western high culture. This logic privileges mind over body, masculine over feminine, individual over collective, control over emotion, and a realm of transcendence over the haphazardness of daily life. As clinical studies of anorexia show, this is the very logic adopted by millions of young American women today, to devastating effect. 330 8 $aIn literature this anorexic logic is embodied in high modernism, as Heywood shows in discussions of Kafka, Pound, Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Conrad. In a compelling chapter on Jean Rhys, Heywood reveals an author struggling 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. 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