David Foster Wallace and Religion
Essays on Faith and Fiction
In the years since his suicide, scholars have explored David Foster Wallace's writing in transdisciplinary ways. This is the first book of its kind to discuss how Wallace understood and wrote about religion. At present, the scholarly community is sharply divided on how best to read Wallace on religious questions. Some interpret him to be a Nietzschean nihilist, while others see in him a profoundly spiritual, even mystical thinker. Some read Wallace as a Buddhist thinker, and others as a Christian existentialist. Involved at every level of this discussion are Wallace's experiences in Twelve Step recovery programs, according to which only a hig…
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Weitere Autoren: Brick, Martin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5013-4530-2
- EAN: 9781501345302
- Produktnummer: 32938939
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'346 KB
Über den Autor
Michael McGowan is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Florida Southwestern State College, USA. He is the author of The Bridge: Revelation and Its Implications (2015).Martin Brick is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Dominican University, USA.
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