“The lingua franca of the inward bound” : plaisirs solipsistes sous l’emprise de la langue chez David Foster Wallace
This paper aims at showing how in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, language acts as a psychotrope which exposes the flaws of a disenchanted world whose decay cannot be prevented. These flaws are also those of an utterly isolated subject: a mere cog in a world-machine no longer able to hold the pr...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Français |
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2018
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | This paper aims at showing how in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, language acts as a psychotrope which exposes the flaws of a disenchanted world whose decay cannot be prevented. These flaws are also those of an utterly isolated subject: a mere cog in a world-machine no longer able to hold the promise of community. |
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