I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Dewing, Brett Alan

I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798385254002)

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I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Dewing, Brett Alan

I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

$12.00
I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie by Dewing, Brett Alan

I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

$12.00
Format: Paperback
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We find ourselves at a transitional time in culture, encouraged from the youngest age to apply defining labels to ourselves. Sometimes it seems that everybody is fighting for the smallest pigeonhole. An alternative paradigm, celebrating complexity and multiplicity in personal identity, may be found in a surprising source: Alanis Morissette's 1998 album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. In this book, critic Brett Alan Dewing makes a case for the album as a masterpiece that challenges popular thinking on the nature of our very selves. Through a close reading of the entire album, its deceptively chaotic structure is shown to be a carefully planned form that orders surprisingly rich thoughts on who and how we are, always brimming with lessons both therapeutic (through Morissette's engagement with the Internal Family Systems model) and practically theological. Dewing interweaves his analysis with examples of his own battle to not let the world steal his complexity.


Author: Brett Alan Dewing
ISBN-13: 9798385254002
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2026
Pages: 70
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.15d
By Brett Alan Dewing
By Brett Alan Dewing
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Brett Alan Dewing is a critic, poet, playwright, and teacher living in Pennsylvania. Along with I Too Once Thought . . ., he is the author of multiple self-published poetry collections, plays, and criticism. His reviews may be found at www.b-a-dreviews.com.

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