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A feeling of wrongness : pessimistic rhetoric on the fringes of popular culture / Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Packer, Joseph, 1983- author.
- Stoneman, Ethan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pessimism--Case studies.
- Pessimism.
- Popular culture.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Examines case studies of popular culture as pessimistic rhetorical artifacts, and how non-traditional modes of argumentation can work rhetorically to overcome biases against pessimistic messaging"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Few defenders" : an introduction
- "no, everything is not all right" : supernatural horror as pessimistic argument
- "I'm bad at parties" : the philosophical pessimism of True detective
- "Wubba lubba dub-dub!" : the tragicomic pessimism of Rick and Morty
- "Finish her" : the interactive pessimism of Final fantasy VII
- "All hope abandon" : transhumanism's hidden hellscape
- Conclusion : pessimism never won any battles?.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-271-08315-8
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