Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Feeling of WrongnessCondition: NewEAN: 9780271082363ISBN: 9780271082363Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/11/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 16mmItem Weight: 404gAuthor: Joseph Packer, Ethan StonemanLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular CultureISBN-10: 0271082364Description: In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated cartoons to speculative fiction. Packer and Stoneman explore how narratives such as True Detective, Rick and Morty, Final Fantasy VII, Lovecraftian weird fiction, and the pop ideology of transhumanism are better suited to communicate pessimistic affect to their fans than most carefully argued philosophical treatises and polemics. They show how these popular nondiscursive texts successfully circumvent the typical defenses against pessimism identified by Peter Wessel Zapffe as distraction, isolation, anchoring, and sublimation. They twist genres, upend common tropes, and disturb conventional narrative structures in a way that catches their audience off guard, resulting in belief without cognition, a more rhetorically effective form of pessimism than philosophical pessimism. While philosophers and polemicists argue for pessimism in accord with the inherently optimistic structures of expressive thought or rhetoric, Packer and Stoneman show how popular texts are able to communicate their pessimism in ways that are paradoxically freed from the restrictive tools of optimism. A Feeling of Wrongness thus presents uncharted rhetorical possibilities for narrative, making visible the rhetorical efficacy of alternate ways and means of persuasion.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Literary Criticism, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Feeling of Wrongness
Title: A Feeling of Wrongness
EAN: 9780271082363
ISBN: 9780271082363
Release Date: 11/11/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture
ISBN-10: 0271082364
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Feeling of Wrongness : Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: Popular Culture, Personality, Rhetoric
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 14.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Art, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
