“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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1. Verfasser: Bauer, Sylvie
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Français
Veröffentlicht: 2018
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Zusammenfassung: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.