A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture

by Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271082364
• ISBN13: 9780271082363
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"