The Fact of the Cage Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest |
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| Author:
| Plank, Karl A. |
| Series title: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-000-33896-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2021 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $48.95USD $200.00USD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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Plank's study makes the case that reading fiction matters, that reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is a stubborn act of ethical and religious significance, that the trek through its many pages may, in the end, redeem its reader from the lethal loneliness that is "the fact of the cage."
Plank's study makes the case that reading fiction matters, that reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is a stubborn act of ethical and religious significance, that the trek through its many pages may, in the end, redeem its reader from the lethal loneliness that is "the fact of the cage."