Langbeschreibung
This interpretation of literary collaboration, first published in 1989, focuses on homosexual desire: men write together in order either to express or to evade homosexual feelings. The texts it explores - psychoanalysis, sexology, fiction, poetry - open up a deeper understanding of connections today between the erotic and the literary.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Interpreting Double Talk: An Introduction. Part 1. Men of Science 1. Privileging the Anus: Anna O. and the Collaborative Origin of Psychoanalysis 2. Unlocking Symonds: Sexual Inversion Part 2. 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 3. The Hour of Double Talk 5. Manuscript Affairs: Collaborative Romances of the Fin de Siècle