Background
Foster, Dennis Alan was born on June 6, 1950 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. Son of Martin Aloysius and Faye Irene (Stewart) Foster.
(Linking classic American literature to contemporary popul...)
Linking classic American literature to contemporary popular culture, Sublime Enjoyment argues that the rational systems of normal social life are motivated and sustained by "perverse" desires. This perversity arises from the failure of symbolic satisfaction--love, work, success--to make us happy, and from our refusal to accept that failure. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster identifies ways that longings are linked to social forces.
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Foster, Dennis Alan was born on June 6, 1950 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. Son of Martin Aloysius and Faye Irene (Stewart) Foster.
Bachelor, University California, Berkeley, 1972. Master of Arts, San Francisco State University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Irvine, 1982.
Assistant professor Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1983-1989, associate professor, 1989-1997, professor English, since 1997, chair English department, since 1996.
(Linking classic American literature to contemporary popul...)