Paolo Pitari

The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the 'existentialist contradiction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040044650
• Artikelnr.: 70654563

Autorenporträt

Paolo Pitari completed a joint PhD in English at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and at LMU Munich. He is the author of numerous academic articles in literature and philosophy. This research was funded by the University of Venice, the JFK Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, and the DAAD.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The problem of free will
Introduction: The problem of free will in David Foster Wallace
Part one: Literary truth according to David Foster Wallace
Chapter 1: The influence of Leo Tolstoy's What Is Art? on David Foster
Wallace's literary project
Chapter 2: The influence of Jean-Paul Sartre's "What Is Literature?" on
David Foster Wallace's literary project
Part two: The problem of free will in David Foster Wallace's literary
sociology
Chapter 3: The system of David Foster Wallace's literary sociology
Chapter 4: On narcissism: David Foster Wallace and Christopher Lasch
Chapter 5: On morality and the absurd: David Foster Wallace and Zygmunt
Bauman
Chapter 6: On existentialism and capitalism: David Foster Wallace and
Ulrich and Elisabeth Beck
Chapter 7: On ontological insecurity: David Foster Wallace and Anthony
Giddens
Part three: The problem of free will in David Foster Wallace's fiction: A
comparative reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace
Chapter 8: A critical history of the philosophical criticism on Fyodor
Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace
Chapter 9: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and David Foster Wallace:
United in existentialism
Chapter 10: The problem of free will in Crime and Punishment and The Pale
King
Bibliography
Index