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The fact of the cage : reading and redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Karl A. Plank.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A425635 I54375 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plank, Karl A. (Karl Andrews), author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 50.
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 50
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallace, David Foster. Infinite jest.
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Wallace, David Foster--Religion.
- Redemption in literature.
- Books and reading--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Books and reading.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Revealing Wallace's theology of a "boneless Christ," The Fact of the Cage wagers that reading such a novel as Infinite Jest makes available to readers the redemption glimpsed in its pages, that reading fiction has ethical and religious significance-in short, that reading Infinite Jest makes one better. As such, Plank's work takes steps to defend the ethics of fiction, the vital relation between religion and literature, and why one just might read at all"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Reading to become better : an approach to Infinite jest
- The predicament of encagement
- Contending with the cage : abiding and breaking-through
- The redemption of boneless Christs
- The redemption of the reader.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780367611347
- 0367611341
- 9780367698874
- 0367698870
- OCLC:
- 1197724764
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