{"product_id":"throw-yourself-away-by-professor-julia-jarcho-9780226835037","title":"Throw Yourself Away","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eProposes that we can best understand literature's relationship to sex through a renewed focus on masochism.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 theatre has played a central role in modern erotic fantasies of the literary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJarcho 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 feminised—and less uniformly white—image of both masochism and authorship. Ultimately, Jarcho argues that a retheorised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471854911724,"sku":"9780226835037","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226835037-throw-yourself-away.jpg?v=1775260344","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/throw-yourself-away-by-professor-julia-jarcho-9780226835037","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}