The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption In David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" - Paperback

by Karl A. Plank (Author)

Plank's study makes the case that reading fiction matters, that reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is a stubborn act of ethical and religious significance, that the trek through its many pages may, in the end, redeem its reader from the lethal loneliness that is "the fact of the cage."

Author Biography

Karl A. Plank is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religious Studies at Davidson College, USA. The author of Paul and the Irony of Affliction and Mother of the Wire Fence: Inside and Outside the Holocaust, he has published studies in journals such as Religion and Literature, Literature and Theology, Anglican Theological Review, and Cistercian Studies.