The fact of the cage : reading and redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest /
"Revealing Wallace's theology of a "boneless Christ," The Fact of the Cage wagers that reading such a novel as Infinite Jest makes available to readers the redemption glimpsed in its pages, that reading fiction has ethical and religious significance-in short, that reading Infinit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;
50. |
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| Summary: | "Revealing Wallace's theology of a "boneless Christ," The Fact of the Cage wagers that reading such a novel as Infinite Jest makes available to readers the redemption glimpsed in its pages, that reading fiction has ethical and religious significance-in short, that reading Infinite Jest makes one better. As such, Plank's work takes steps to defend the ethics of fiction, the vital relation between religion and literature, and why one just might read at all"-- |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 193 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780367611347 0367611341 9780367698874 0367698870 |