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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 Foster ...
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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 strongest, exploring ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Review of The End of the Tour, 2015. [Film] Directed by James Ponsoldt. USA: A24
... International David Foster Wallace Society—all of which explore the significance of his work—it is also true that scholars are no longer in full control of what Wallace ‘means’ in contemporary American ...
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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 ...
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David Foster Wallace and New Sincerity Aesthetics : A Reply to Edward Jackson and Joel-Nicholson-Roberts
... In the nearly nine years since David Foster Wallace’s death in September 2008, interest in his work has steadily increased. The period has witnessed a series of cultural and critical milestones: the ...
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“Cowboy, Paladin, Hero?”: Being Boys and Men in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
... in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King” that Wallace explores the various ways of understanding and coping with boredom in both the novel’s form and content, and, in doing so, he “offers a possible ...
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David Foster Wallace and Repressive Taboos: Clenette Henderson, yrstruly and the identity politics of representation
... Two examples of first-person narration 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 ...
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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 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 argument ...
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Preferential Consideration: Bartleby, Class, and Genocide in David Foster Wallace's “Consider the Lobster”
... BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online Eve, Martin Paul 2017 Preferential Consideration: Bartleby, Class, and Genocide in David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”.. Usage Gu[r] ...
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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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Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and twenty first century utopianism
... By the publication of Infinite Jest in 1996, it had long been David Foster Wallace's ambition to move beyond the now “critical and destructive” 1993, 183 postmodern irony that he claimed[r] ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Review of Hayes-Brady, C, 2016. The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, Resistance. London: Bloomsbury
... By way of final remarks, The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace is an excellent work of scholarship, in which Clare Hayes-Brady has shown a masterful command of both primary [r] ...
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David Foster Wallace Special Issue Reading the Ghost in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction
... called David. The scene is set in 1974 and “David” is 13, while Wallace would have been 12 in 1974 (Jest Box ...called David Foster Wallace (Jest Box ...
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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 “I Kept Saying Her Name”: Naming, Labels and Power in the Early Writing of David Foster Wallace
... Among the most immediately striking features of David Foster Wallace’s writing is his use of names. Ranging from broad comedy to philosophical and cryptic signposting, the ways Wallace names his characters, ...
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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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Article Desperately Seeking David: Authorship in the Early Works of David Foster Wallace
... Wallace admits the inadequacies of masks by pointing to moments where so many of them fail. “John Billy” is one such example. The story features one of the most complex narrative voices that Wallace ever attempts, the ...
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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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Narrative infinity in the encyclopedic novel : manipulations of Dante Alighieri's Divina commedia in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest
... The text includes copious endnotes that often include narrative lines that reach beyond the main narrative, achieving something that Dante’s text does not attempt and hinting at the po[r] ...
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