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Existentialist engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer : a philosophical analysis of contemporary American literature /

"The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American fiction. 'Post-postmodernism' and 'New Sincerity' are just two of the labels that hav...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dulk, Allard den, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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520 |a "A philosophical analysis of existentialist themes in the fiction of Wallace, Eggers and Foer"--  |c Provided by publisher 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-Title; Title; Imprint; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Aims and method; 2. An 'aesthetic sea-change' in American literature; 3. Outline of primary literary works; 4. Heuristic perspectives; 5. Outline of the study; Part One Problems; 1 Hyperreflexivity; Introduction; 1. Factors of heightened contemporary reflexivity; 2. Sartre's view of consciousness and self-reflection; 3. The alienation of self-reflection; Conclusion; 2 Endless Irony; Introduction; 1. Irony as an attitude towards existence; 2. Irony as negative independence. 
505 8 |a 3. Endless 'aesthetic' irony4. Meta-irony; Conclusion; Problematic Fiction; 3 Postmodernist Metafiction: John Barth.; Introduction; 1. Metafiction; 2. Deconstruction and metafiction; Conclusion; 4 Postmodernist Minimalism: Bret Easton Ellis.; Introduction; 1. General comparison; 2. Four aspects of the escalation of ironic-aesthetic existence; 3. A continuation of reflexive irony; Conclusion; Part Two Engaged Fiction; 5 Wittgenstein and Wallace: The Meaning of Fiction.; Introduction; 1. Wittgenstein: The temptation of essences; 2. Wittgenstein: The irrelevance of essences. 
505 8 |a 3. The virtues of the late-Wittgensteinian language view4. A late-Wittgensteinian view of fiction; Conclusion; Engagement; 6 Sincerity; Introduction; 1. Sincerity versus authenticity; 2. Sincerity: A Sartrean, existentialist ideal; 3. Case studies of sincerity: The fiction of Wallace, Eggers and Foer; Conclusion; 7 Reality-Commitment; Introduction; 1. The realization of choice: Freedom, despair, urgency; 2. The reality of the self as gift and task; 3. Reality as repetition; Conclusion; 8 Community; Introduction; 1. Absurdity and rebellion: Two main themes of Camus's thought. 
505 8 |a 2. The role of the other: Kierkegaard and Sartre versus Camus3. Discovering the other: Wallace, Eggers and Foer; 4. Towards a dialogic community of meaning; Conclusion; Concluding Remarks; 1. Literature and philosophy; 2. Existentialist engagement; 3. Love me till my heart stops?; Acknowledgements; Works Cited; Index. 
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