The gospel according to David Foster Wallace : boredom and addiction in an age of distraction
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The gospel according to David Foster Wallace : boredom and addiction in an age of distraction
(New directions in religion and literature)
Bloomsbury, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes - from boredom to addiction, and distraction - in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists.
In a series of short, topic-focused chapters, the book joins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute to his overall account of what it means to be a human being in the 21st century. Adam Miller explores how Wallace's work masterfully investigates the nature of first-world boredom and shows, in the process, how easy it is to get addicted to distraction (chemical, electronic, or otherwise). Implicitly critiquing, excising, and repurposing elements of AA's Twelve Step program, Wallace suggests that the practice of prayer (regardless of belief in God), the patient application of attention to things that seem ordinary and boring, and the internalization of cliches may be the antidote to much of what ails us in the 21st century.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Schemas
3. Maps
4. Contortions
5. Taxes
6. Addiction
7. Desire
8. Despair
9. Distraction
10. Watching
11. Assassins
12. Irony
13. Masks
14. Beauty
15. Time
16. Deskwork
17. Sewage
18. Size
19. Silence
20. Immersion
21. Indifference
22. Boredom
23. Revelations
24. Heroes
25. Awareness
26. Abiding
27. Bodies
28. Prayer
29. Cliches
30. Epiphany
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