The Fact of the Cage

The Fact of the Cage
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781000338966
ISBN-13 : 1000338967
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Book Synopsis The Fact of the Cage by : Karl A. Plank

Download or read book The Fact of the Cage written by Karl A. Plank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve the loneliness of human suffering. In that light, The Fact of the Cage shows how Wallace’s masterpiece dramatizes the condition of encagement and how it comes to be met by "Abiding" and through inter-relational acts of speaking and hearing, touching, and facing. Revealing Wallace’s theology of a "boneless Christ," The Fact of the Cage wagers that reading such a novel as Infinite Jest makes available to readers the redemption glimpsed in its pages, that reading fiction has ethical and religious significance—in short, that reading Infinite Jest makes one better. As such, Plank’s work takes steps to defend the ethics of fiction, the vital relation between religion and literature, and why one just might read at all.


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