A Feeling of Wrongness Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture 1st Edition by Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman ISBN 0271082356 978-0271082356

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ISBN 10: 0271082356 

ISBN 13: 978-0271082356

Author: Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman

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.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1: “No, Everything Is Not All Right:” Supernatural Horror as Pessimistic……Page 32
Notes to Chapter 1……Page 186
Chapter 2: “I’m Bad at Parties:” The Philosophical Pessimism of True Detective……Page 58
Notes to Chapter 2……Page 190
Chapter 3: “Wubba Lubba Dub-Dub!” The Tragicomic Pessimism of Rick and Morty……Page 88
Notes to Chapter 3……Page 193
Chapter 4: “Finish Her:” The Interactive Pessimism of Final Fantasy VII……Page 116
Notes to Chapter 4……Page 196
Chapter 5: “All Hope Abandon:” Transhumanism’s Hidden Hellscape……Page 146
Notes to Chapter 5……Page 199

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