LEADER 02828nam 2200553 450 001 9910827271503321 005 20200701111004.0 010 $a1-5036-0931-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503609310 035 $a(CKB)4100000010756078 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6143788 035 $a(DE-B1597)563829 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503609310 035 $a(OCoLC)1198929770 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010756078 100 $a20200701d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOrdinary unhappiness $ethe therapeutic fiction of David Foster Wallace /$fJon Baskin 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (197 pages) 225 0 $aSquare One 311 $a1-5036-0833-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction. Habits of Mind -- $t1. Narrative Morality -- $t2. Playing Games -- $t3. So Decide -- $t4. Untrendy Problems -- $tConclusion. In Heaven and Earth -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvre and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. What emerges is a Wallace who not only speaks to our postmodern addictions in the age of mass entertainment and McDonald's but who seeks to address a quiet desperation at the heart of our modern lives. Freud said that the job of the therapeutic process was to turn "hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness." This book makes a case for how Wallace achieved this in his fiction. 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophy in literature 610 $aDavid Foster Wallace. 610 $aInfinite Jest. 610 $aWittgenstein. 610 $adifferent therapies. 610 $aliterature and philosophy. 610 $aphilosophical therapy. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophy in literature. 676 $a813.54 700 $aBaskin$b Jon$f1980-$01638543 702 $aKottman$b Paul A., $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827271503321 996 $aOrdinary unhappiness$93981050 997 $aUNINA