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"The Hazards Of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking In Infinite Jest, Josh Cunningham
"The Hazards Of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking In Infinite Jest, Josh Cunningham
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This paper is about self-consciousness and how it figures in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Because Infinite Jest is such a large novel (1079 pages, including the indispensable footnotes), it serves, like other large novels before it, as a kind of encyclopedia of contemporary culture. The novel, in large part, treats self-consciousness—a distinctly human phenomenon, one which certainly accounts for our dominance as a species—as a problem (on both an individual and collective level) that needs to be overcome. This is because, as it turns out, self consciousness, when it becomes epidemic, is as much a boon as it …
The Will To Change: The Role Of Self-Consciousness In The Literature Of Metamorphosis, Michael Giovanniello
The Will To Change: The Role Of Self-Consciousness In The Literature Of Metamorphosis, Michael Giovanniello
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