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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.
Literature --- Philosophy in literature. --- Philosophy. --- Wallace, David Foster --- Criticism and interpretation. --- David Foster Wallace. --- Infinite Jest. --- Wittgenstein. --- different therapies. --- literature and philosophy. --- philosophical therapy.
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The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar LindaWagner-Martin gives the reader a solid framework and foundation to reading, understanding, and appreciating postmodern literature since its inception through the present day.
Modernism (Literature) --- American literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General. --- Adrienne Rich. --- Alice Walker. --- American Literature. --- American Modernism. --- A Farewell to Arms. --- autobiography. --- avant garde. --- biography. --- Charles Bukowski. --- Chuck Palahniuk. --- contemporary literature. --- culture. --- David Cowart. --- David Foster Wallace. --- Denise Levertov. --- Donald Barthelme. --- drama. --- Ernest Hemingway. --- existentialism. --- experimentation within genres. --- fiction. --- Gary Snyder. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Gloria Naylor. --- Helena Maria Viramontes. --- Infinite Jest. --- identity politics. --- John Barth. --- Ken Kesey. --- Kurt Vonnegut. --- Literature of Exhaustion. --- modernism. --- North American Literature. --- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. --- Philip Roth. --- poetry. --- prose. --- Ralph Ellison. --- Raymond Carve. --- Richard Kostelanetz. --- Richard Powers. --- Sherwood Anderson. --- Slaughterhouse Five. --- short story. --- The Color Purple. --- The Waste Land. --- Toni Morrison. --- T. S. Eliot. --- United States. --- Yusef Komunyakaa.
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