Existentialist engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: a philosophical analysis of contemporary American literature
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Foreword: ‘Love Me till My Heart Stops’ xi
Introduction 1
Aims and method 1
An ‘aesthetic sea-change’ in American literature 4
Outline of primary literary works 9
Heuristic perspectives 15
Outline of the study 18
Part 1 23
Problems 25
1 Hyperreflexivity 26
Introduction 26
Factors of heightened contemporary reflexivity 28
Sartre’s view of consciousness and self-reflection 35
The alienation of self-reflection 41
Conclusion 59
2 Endless Irony 60
Introduction 60
Irony as an attitude towards existence 62
Irony as negative independence 66
Endless ‘aesthetic’ irony 71
Meta-irony 80
Conclusion 84
Problematic Fiction 87
3 Postmodernist Metafiction: John Barth 88
Introduction 88
Metafiction 90
VI
Contents
Deconstruction and metafiction 93
Conclusion 108
4 Postmodernist Minimalism: Bret Easton Ellis 109
Introduction 109
General comparison 111
Four aspects of the escalation of ironic-aesthetic existence 115
A continuation of reflexive irony 125
Conclusion 127
Part 2 129
Engaged Fiction 131
5 Wittgenstein and Wallace: The Meaning of Fiction 132
Introduction 132
Wittgenstein: The temptation of essences 133
Wittgenstein: The irrelevance of essences 137
The virtues of the late-Witt gen steinian language view 145
A late-Wittgensteinian view of fiction 154
Conclusion 160
Engagement 161
6 Sincerity 162
Introduction 162
Sincerity versus authenticity 163
Sincerity: A Sartrean, existentialist ideal 170
Case studies of sincerity: The fiction of Wallace, Eggers and Foer 179
Conclusion 194
7 Reality-Commitment 197
Intro duction 197
The realization of choice: Freedom, despair, urgency 198
The reality of the self as gift and task 206
Reality as repetition 213
Conclusion 225
8 Community 229
Introduction 229
Contents
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Absurdity and rebellion: Two main themes of Camuss thought 230
The role of the other: Kierkegaard and Sartre versus Camus 234
Discovering the other: Wallace, Eggers and Foer 239
Towards a dialogic community of meaning 250
Conclusion 259
Concluding Remarks 261
Literature and philosophy 261
Existentialist engagement 264
Love me till my heart stops? 268
Acknowledgements 269
Works Cited 271
Index 289
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