{"product_id":"everyone-loves-a-good-train-wreck-paperback","title":"Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric G. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy can't we look away?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments like horror movies and police procedurals. What makes these spectacles so irresistible?\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eEveryone Loves a Good Train Wreck\u003c\/i\u003e, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the gruesome, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there's something nourishing in darkness. To repress death is to lose the feeling of life, he writes. A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies.\u003cbr\u003e His examples are legion and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag's \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and \u003ci\u003eSteel Magnolias\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In \u003ci\u003eEveryone Loves a Good Train Wreck\u003c\/i\u003e, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative defense of what it means to be human--for better and for worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric G. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, and five books on the relationship between literature and psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336399642726,"sku":"9780374533700","price":25.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NjIvM09PMEtFSXB3Vk1Fb1hQaWJVQT09.webp?v=1774605032","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/everyone-loves-a-good-train-wreck-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}