The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace : Language, Identity, and Resistance
Clare. Hayes-Brady
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
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| Medvirkende | Hayes-Brady, Clare. (Author)
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| Utgitt | New York : : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2016.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (233 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Wallace and failure: A love story; Communication, ethics, and will; Boundaried selves: Reading resistance, resisting reading; 2 "I'm a Man of My-" Wallace and the Incomplete; The legacy of ideas; "This muddy Bothness": Persistent plurality; "I can't go on, I'll go on": Cynicism and the will to belief; Authority and authorship; Sincerity and art: The next rebellion; 3 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World; Out of joint: Wallace and his time. - Exploitative signification: Rap and the white subjectPhilomela weaving: Mute women, masculine crisis, and power dynamics; Girls on film: Subject, object, abject; "How can you love what you can't hold on to?": Love, sex, and the solipsist; See you, see me: Acknowledging the self as object; Foreign bodies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. - Fleshing out the story: Skeletal narrative and the interpretive gapDeceit, deception, and disruption: Trauma and the self; Monologue, dialogue, and plurality; LIEBESTOD: Vocabulary, communication, and the death of the self; "They are sort of disingenuous": Establishing us-and-them in the nonfiction; Radical sanity: Humor and the nonfiction; "I'm not an expert at it. I don't pretend to be": A Caesarian section; "Both flesh and not": Encoding plurality; 8 "Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference, and the Body; "She's over there": Acknowledging the other. - Love as a function of distanceMust we mean what we say?; Crossed wires: Communicating an authentic self; Dynamic communication: Reader, writer, text; 6 Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity; "Be my tiny Yin": The solipsistic trap; Narcissism, infancy, and the inner child; "We are ourselves Other": Alterity and the narrative self; "It's what we have in common": Community, cynicism, and the involuntary network; What's your story? Narrativity and narcissism; Addiction, affect, and anonymity; Argot, you go: Jargon, sharing, and reciprocity; 7 Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure. - The appropriateness of misappropriationSelf-reliance: Wallace, America, and the wider world; "Jesus, Sweets, Listen": "Westward," exhaustion, and intertextuality; What's in a name? Hauntings, titles, and talking to texts; 4 The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy; Climbing the ladder: The uses of philosophy; "The piquant qualia of lived experience": Wallace, Wittgenstein, and The Broom of the System; Richard Rorty, collectivity, and the pragmatic tradition; 5 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication; Philosophy and communication
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| ISBN | 9781501313523
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