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Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities)

Jon Baskin

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Description:In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn "hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness." This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities). To get started finding Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn "hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness." This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities). To get started finding Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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