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Ordinary Unhappiness : The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503609310
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ordinary UnhappinessDDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS3573.A425635 .B375 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Habits of Mind -- 1 Narrative Morality: On Philosophically Therapeutic Criticism -- 2 Playing Games: Infinite Jest as Philosophical Therapy -- 3 So Decide: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Philosophical Criticism -- 4 Untrendy Problems: The Pale King's Philosophical Inspirations -- Conclusion: In Heaven and Earth -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovations were intended as "therapies" for the pervasive dis-eases of our time.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Habits of Mind -- 1 Narrative Morality: On Philosophically Therapeutic Criticism -- 2 Playing Games: Infinite Jest as Philosophical Therapy -- 3 So Decide: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Philosophical Criticism -- 4 Untrendy Problems: The Pale King's Philosophical Inspirations -- Conclusion: In Heaven and Earth -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovations were intended as "therapies" for the pervasive dis-eases of our time.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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