Matthew Campora

A Kierkegaardian Reading of David Foster Wallace (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This work explores the fiction of David Foster Wallace through frameworks developed by nineteenth century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard to foreground the similarities in their approaches to the problem of irony, as well as in their strategies for overcoming the cynicism they believe it often produces. Kierkegaard's thesis, "The Concept of Irony: With Continual Reference to Socrates" is the focal point for the discussion of irony in this paper, where it will be argued that Wallace, like Kierkegaard, wrote inventive texts, theorized irony and its limitations, and sought ways beyond it. Wallace's fiction will be shown to offer a relentlessly sophisticated critique of contemporary American culture, yet also to offer a compassionate attempt to construct something redemptive to replace the emptiness it so deftly describes. To do this, it will consider Wallace's "Infinite Jest" and two collections of his short fiction - "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" and "Oblivion".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Matthew Campora
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310937149
• Artikelnr.: 69836185

Autorenporträt

Matthew Campora is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He holds an MPhil in literary studies and a PhD in film studies and is the author of "Subjective Realist Cinema: From Caligari to Inception" (Berghahn 2014).