I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - Couverture souple

Dewing, Brett Alan

 
9798385254002: I Too Once Thought . . .: Problematizing Identity and Ordering the So-Called Chaos in Alanis Morissette's Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Couverture souple
ISBN 13 : 9798385254002
Editeur : Resource Publications, 2026

Synopsis

We find ourselves at a transitional time in culture, encouraged from the youngest age to apply defining labels to ourselves. Sometimes it seems that everybody is fighting for the smallest pigeonhole. An alternative paradigm, celebrating complexity and multiplicity in personal identity, may be found in a surprising source: Alanis Morissette’s 1998 album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. In this book, critic Brett Alan Dewing makes a case for the album as a masterpiece that challenges popular thinking on the nature of our very selves. Through a close reading of the entire album, its deceptively chaotic structure is shown to be a carefully planned form that orders surprisingly rich thoughts on who and how we are, always brimming with lessons both therapeutic (through Morissette’s engagement with the Internal Family Systems model) and practically theological. Dewing interweaves his analysis with examples of his own battle to not let the world steal his complexity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brett Alan Dewing is a critic, poet, playwright, and teacher living in Pennsylvania. Along with I Too Once Thought . . ., he is the author of multiple self-published poetry collections, plays, and criticism. His reviews may be found at www.b-a-dreviews.com.

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Éditeur
Resource Publications
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798385254002
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
70
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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