Existentialist engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer : a philosophical analysis of contemporary American literature / Allard den Dulk.
"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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Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsberry Publishing, Inc,
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Existentialist engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer : |b a philosophical analysis of contemporary American literature / |c Allard den Dulk. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsberry Publishing, Inc, |c 2015. | |
| 300 | |a xii, 301 pages ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 I: PROBLEMS. 1. Hyperreflexivity Introduction ; Factors of Heightened Contemporary Reflexivity ; Sartre's View of Consciousness and Self-Reflection ; the Alienation of Self-Reflection Conclusion ; 2. Endless Irony ; Introduction ; Irony as an Attitude towards Existence ; Irony as Negative Independence ; Endless 'Aesthetic' Irony ; Meta-Irony ; Conclusion ; PROBLEMATIC FICTION. 3. Postmodernist Metafiction : John Barth Introduction ; Metafiction ; Deconstruction and Metafiction -- Conclusion. 4. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Postmodernist Minimalism: Bret Easton Ellis ; Introduction ; General Comparison ; Four Aspects of the Escalation of Ironic-Aesthetic Existence ; A Continuation of Reflexive Irony ; Conclusion -- PART II: ENGAGED FICTION. 5. Wittgenstein and Wallace: The Meaning of Fiction ; Introduction ; Wittgenstein: The Temptation of Essences ; Wittgenstein: The Irrelevance of Essences ; The Virtues of the Late-Wittgensteinian Language View ; A Late-Wittgensteinian View of Fiction ; Conclusion ; ENGAGEMENT ; 6. Sincerity Introduction ; Sincerity vs. Authenticity ; Sincerity: A Sartrean, Existentialist Ideal ; Cases of Sincerity: The Fiction of Wallace, Eggers and Foer ; Conclusion ; 7. Reality : Commitment ; Introduction ;the Realization of Choice: Freedom, Despair, Urgency ; the Reality of the Self as Gift and Task ; Reality as Repetition; Conclusion ; 8. Community ; introduction ; Aburdity and rebellion : two main themes of Camus's thought ; The role of the other : kierkegaard and Sartre verus camus ; Discovering the other : Wallance, Eggers and foer ; Towards a dialogic community of meaning; conclusion. | |
| 520 | |a "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 have been attached to this trend. But what do these labels mean? What characterizes and connects these novels? Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one hand, they portray excessive self-reflection and endless irony as the two main problems of contemporary Western life. On the other hand, the novels embody an attempt to overcome these problems: sincerity, reality-commitment and community are portrayed as the virtues needed to achieve a meaningful life. This shared philosophical dimension is analyzed by viewing the novels in light of the existentialist philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Camus"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a "A philosophical analysis of existentialist themes in the fiction of Wallace, Eggers and Foer"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Wallace, David Foster |x Criticism and interpretation. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Eggers, Dave |x Criticism and interpretation. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Foer, Jonathan Safran, |d 1977- |t Everything is illuminated. |
| 650 | 0 | |a American fiction |y 21st century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Existentialism in literature. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046377. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Literature |x Philosophy. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077524. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Postmodernism (Literature) |z United States. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109613. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Irony in literature. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068256. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Amerikans litteratur |x historia. |2 sao. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Existentialism i litteraturen. |2 sao. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Litteratur |x teori, filosofi. |2 sao. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Postmodernism. |2 sao. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Ironi i litteraturen. |2 sao. | |
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