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Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
by Jon Baskin
July 31, 2020 - Aug. 1, 2020 (read/david-foster-wallace/literary-criticism)

Baskin, J. (2019). Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace. Stanford University Press.


Stanford University Press, 2019. 200 pages. Paperback. 9781503609303

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p.122
peroration »
(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and esp…
p.47
portentous »
(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a po…
p.20
abjure »
(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject s…
p.7
dialogic »
pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian phi…
p.112
an endless refusal of victory
[...] _Brief Interviews_ presents many characters…
p.99
the temptation to remain forever overhead
A solution to this problem might seem to be to de…
p.92
Death Is Not the End
[...] The stillness and enclosedness of the poet'…
p.67
what they _already_ believe
[...] it is not only by emphasizing simplicity an…
p.58
inward-facing individual, alienating society
[...] The opening scene stages the very common mo…