{"product_id":"the-fact-of-the-cage-karl-a-plank-9780367611347","title":"The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption In David Foster Wallace's \"Infinite Jest\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace's \u003ci\u003eInfinite\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJest \u003c\/i\u003eraised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve the loneliness of human suffering. In that light, \u003ci\u003eThe Fact of the Cage\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Wallace's masterpiece dramatizes the condition of encagement and how it comes to be met by \"Abiding\" and through inter-relational acts of speaking and hearing, touching, and facing. Revealing Wallace's theology of a \"boneless Christ,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Fact of the Cage\u003c\/i\u003e wagers that reading such a novel as \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e makes available to readers the redemption glimpsed in its pages, that reading fiction has ethical and religious significance-in short, that reading \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e makes one better. As such, Plank's work takes steps to defend the ethics of fiction, the vital relation between religion and literature, and why one just might read at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karl A. Plank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367611341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367611347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Karl A. Plank","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056016355583,"sku":"9780367611347","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60ba938f-dc94-4cd4-b521-450963677f52.jpg?v=1685039060","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fact-of-the-cage-karl-a-plank-9780367611347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}