{"product_id":"throw-yourself-away-writing-and-masochism-paperback-2","title":"Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Jarcho\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThrow Yourself Away\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThrow Yourself Away\u003c\/i\u003e furnishes a new masochistic theory of literature itself.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Jarcho\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, theater artist, and scholar from New York City. She is head of playwriting and associate professor of theatre arts and performance studies at Brown University and an OBIE award-winning playwright and director with the New York-based company Minor Theater. Her plays have been published in the collection \u003ci\u003eMinor Theater: Three Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the author of \u003ci\u003eWriting and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336737243385,"sku":"9780226835037","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/wW3vtosbii9780226835037_31ac4424-758c-4f77-817b-32ea7ada6fc7.webp?v=1769670996","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/throw-yourself-away-writing-and-masochism-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}