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Ordinary unhappiness : the therapeutic fiction of David Foster Wallace / Jon Baskin.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A425635 Z527 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baskin, Jon, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Square one (Series)
- Square one : first-order questions in the humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallace, David Foster--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Philosophy in literature.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 179 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction : habits of mind
- Narrative morality : on philosophically therapeutic criticism
- Playing games : Infinite jest as philosophical therapy
- So decide : Brief interviews with hideous men as philosophical criticism
- Untrendy problems : The pale king's philosophical inspirations
- Conclusion : in heaven and earth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781503608337
- 1503608336
- 9781503609303
- 1503609308
- OCLC:
- 1048945704
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