Fact of the Cage - Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallaces 'Infinite Jest'

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."

List of contents

Introduction: In Praise of One Good Reading
1. Reading to Become Better: An Approach to Infinite Jest
2. The Predicament of Encagement
3. Contending with the Cage: Abiding and Breaking Through
4. The Redemption of Boneless Christs
5. The Redemption of the Reader

About the author

Karl A. Plank is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religious Studies at Davidson College, USA. The author of Paul and the Irony of Affliction and Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust, he has published studies in journals such as Religion and Literature, Literature and Theology, Anglican Theological Review, and Cistercian Studies.

Summary

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."

Product details

• Authors: Karl A. Plank, Plank Karl A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367698874
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69887-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, RELIGION / Ethics, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Religious ethics, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000