Wallace and I: Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace's Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032093901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Jamie Redgate

Opis

Drawing on Wallace’s reading in the science and philosophy of mind, this book gives a rigorous account of Wallace’s humanistic response to postmodernism, and shines a much needed light on the fundamental relationship in Wallace’s work between his characters’ bodies and the ghosts that haunt them.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. "It’s much more boneheaded and practical than that": Authorship and the Body  2. "He’s a ghost haunting his own body": Cartesian Dualism in Wallace’s Ghost Storie  3. "The heat just past the glass doors": Therapy, Madness, and Metaphor  4. "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect": Free Will, Addiction, and the Self

 

O autorze

Jamie Redgate received his PhD from the University of Glasgow. His writing has been published in Critique, Electric Literature, with the Scottish Book Trust, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the Imprint Writing Award in 2018.