The Gospel according to David Foster Wallace : boredom and addiction in an age of distraction /
In a series of short, topic-focused chapters, this book joins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels "Infinite Jest" and "The Pale King" with clear explanations of how they contribute to his overall account of what it means to be a human being in the 21st century. A...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
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| Series: | New directions in religion and literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments. Books
- Heads
- Maps
- Taxes
- Contortions
- Addiction
- Desire
- Despair
- Distraction
- Watching
- Assassins
- Irony
- Masks
- Beauty
- Time
- Deskwork
- Sewage
- Size
- Silence
- Immersion
- Indifference
- Boredom
- Awareness
- Heroes
- Revelations
- Abiding
- Bodies
- Prayer
- Clichés
- Epiphany. Afterword
- Permissions
- Bibliography
- Index.