David Foster Wallace
Watching television with David Foster Wallace
... Abstract Exegesis The exegesis argues that David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite jest is largely concerned with the addictive nature of television and entertainment The novel examines th[r] ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue “I Kept Saying Her Name”: Naming, Labels and Power in the Early Writing of David Foster Wallace
... of David Foster Wallace’s writing is his use of ...ways Wallace names his characters, and, just as significantly, the ways his characters name themselves and each other, are central to the develop- ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Review of The End of the Tour, 2015. [Film] Directed by James Ponsoldt. USA: A24
... of Wallace Studies? For one thing, it indicates the degree to which Wallace has moved out of the (relatively) narrow world of academia and into the wide world of the internet, a move that might affect ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Introduction – Supposedly Fun Things: A David Foster Wallace Special Issue
... him”: David Foster Wallace’s Personal Library and Marginalia’ looks warily at the tendency to read ‘Wallace as the white male “genius” of the edu- cated middle classes’ ...‘Inside David ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue ‘The Realer, More Enduring and Sentimental Part of Him’: David Foster Wallace’s Personal Library and Marginalia
... hand, David Foster Wallace’s personal library and marginalia and, on the other hand, his pub- lished works of fiction? Bustillos’ reading of the self-help marginalia would seem to have been confirmed by the ...
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David Foster Wallace and New Sincerity Aesthetics : A Reply to Edward Jackson and Joel-Nicholson-Roberts
... since David Foster Wallace’s death in September 2008, interest in his work has steadily ...a Wallace novel, a book of non-fiction, a commencement speech, and an undergraduate philosophy thesis; a ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue David Foster Wallace: Insights and Readings - Reviews of Coleman, P ed., 2015. Critical Insights: David Foster Wallace. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing; and Nadell, B, Green, K, and Pietsch, M eds., 2014. The David Foster Wallace Reader. London: Hamish Hamilton).
... “On David Foster Wallace” proves Coleman to be well- positioned as editor and also raises the fascinating question: can Wallace be thought of as a poet? This is Critical Insights at its ...
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“Cowboy, Paladin, Hero?”: Being Boys and Men in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
... “What Wallace does in The Pale King,” Ralph Clare writes, “is conduct a thorough analysis of how boredom has functioned, and continues to function ...in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King” that ...
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Article Desperately Seeking David: Authorship in the Early Works of David Foster Wallace
... that Wallace ever attempts, the height of his linguistic “stunt pilotry” (McCaffery ...25). Wallace maintains this voice for most of the story; how- ever, in the last five pages, the voice, like the ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue ‘They All Sound Like David Foster Wallace’: Syntax and Narrative in Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion and The Pale King
... where in the novel she is identified as Joelle van Dyne). The syntax of this account becomes so convoluted that it is already starting to break down when it reaches the moment at which Lucille/Joelle’s mother interrupts ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Review of Freedom and the Self: Essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace, Edited by Cahn, S. M. and Eckert, M., New York: Columbia University Press, 2015
... ‘David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of “Fatalism”’ (1–30), illustrates the ‘splendid achievement’ of Wallace’s System J (the logico-semantic framework created to articulate the flaw in Taylor’s ...
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DeLillo Special Issue A Deep Insider’s Elegiac Tribute: The Work of Don DeLillo in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
... David Foster Wallace, both overtly in interviews and non-fiction, as well as more cov- ertly in his fiction, engages with the writing of his predecessors in complex and mean- ingful ...young ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Reading the Ghost in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction
... Girl, Wallace explains that “the first draft’s use of a real person’s name is testimony to my stupidity in terms of balancing literary and real-world considera- tions ...letter, Wallace indicates that L ...
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David Foster Wallace and Repressive Taboos: Clenette Henderson, yrstruly and the identity politics of representation
... in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996) that receive little critical attention are the voices of Clenette Henderson and ...yrstruly. Wallace writes Clenette’s voice in African-American ...
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Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the problems of 'metamodernism': post millennial post postmodernism?
... In any examination of the metamodern status of Infinite Jest, the de- gree of metatextual phenomena in the work, as with The Pale King, must be noted. The novel’s fictional eponymous film, ‘Infinite Jest (V) or (VI)’ ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Conjuring David Foster Wallace’s Ghost: Prosopopeia, Whitmanian Intimacy and the Queer Potential of Infinite Jest and The Pale King
... author and reader. In the filmic ‘Infinite Jest’, the physical relationship between the viewer and the stunningly beautiful Joelle Van Dyne, the actress playing the mother, is mimetically produced through the physical ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue White Guys: Questioning Infinite Jest’s New Sincerity
... reserve Wallace presents as regrettable traits we must look beyond if we are to access those other statements that, in Kelly’s words, ‘deal with things that have an aura of importance’ (2014b: ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue The Importance of Habits in Meredith Rand and Shane Drinion’s ‘tête-à-tête’ in The Pale King
... Wallace’s concept of character with Dewey’s conception of habit, in order to eluci- date what it might mean for Wallace to formulate his characters in such a way. For instance, there is a moral, almost utopian ...
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Narrative infinity in the encyclopedic novel : manipulations of Dante Alighieri's Divina commedia in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest
... size. Wallace uses this out- of-placeness to remind the reader of the encyclopedic nature of the work and the claim that it is exceptional in its promise to include ...
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Preferential Consideration: Bartleby, Class, and Genocide in David Foster Wallace's “Consider the Lobster”
... While Wallace delves into neuro- physiology and behaviourism to make his point, the fundamental normative claim that rationalises the investigation is that “possession of the capacity for pain and suffering makes ...
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