The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents

September 27, 2013

Laura Frost on David Foster Wallace and Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure

The following is an excerpt from “Modernism’s Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure,” the final chapter in Laura Frost’s The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents. In the chapter Laura Frost looks at “David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite...

September 26, 2013

Interview with Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure

“It’s a rare work of academic literary criticism that finds a general audience. There is still a kind of snobbery—not unlike the modernists’, actually—that if it’s not ponderous, contorted, and insular, then it’s not serious. God forbid that scholarly work...

September 24, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 1 — A Post by Laura Frost

Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, our featured book of the week: “Modernism constantly puts up … resistance and, even more audaciously, it asks its viewers to value, savor, and learn to...

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Tag: The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents

Laura Frost on David Foster Wallace and Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure

Interview with Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 1 — A Post by Laura Frost