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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S DEMOCRATIC NORMALITY
Revista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas, 2020 "E Unibus Pluram" de David Foster Wallace es un relato del predominio de la ironía destructiva a fines del siglo XX. Tratando de liberarse del solipsismo provocado por el relativismo posmoderno, Wallace abrazó la sinceridad como la piedra angular del ...
Jesús Bolaño Quintero
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Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace: On Parallel Tracks? [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2021 The article discusses ways in which David Foster Wallace engages with Dostoevsky’s life and works. The article points out that Wallace’s commencement speech, “This Is Water,” makes no direct references to Dostoevsky, yet the moral and spiritual values ...
Ellen Chances
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Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, 2021 North American writer David Foster Wallace wrote two short stories - The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation To The Bad Thing and The Depressed Person - that depict depression, in each one taking different yet complementary perspectives on this ...
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Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
English Literature, 2021 This essay asks why radio host Rush Limbaugh appears in Infinite Jest as president and what this detail suggests about the relationship of the novel to conservative media, the later rise of Donald Trump, and radio’s role in Wallace’s imagination of ...
Severs, Jeffrey
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Shamelessness and New Sincerity: Dostoevsky, David Foster Wallace, and Trump’s America [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2021 The ascendency of Donald Trump to President of the United States was marked by the concretisation of the “post-truth” era, an era in which brazen falsehoods not only withstood counterclaims to veracity but seemed to derive their legitimacy from their ...
Michael Bowden
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American underground spirit: Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and the 20th century USA literature [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика, 2021 F. Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864) exerted a considerable influence on American literature since 1940s. The works by outstanding authors beginning with Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, 1944) or Jerome Salinger’s prose and up to Bret Easton Ellis ...
Panova, Olga Yu.
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English Literature, 2021 Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s most famous book, published on February 1, 1996, turned 25 this year. This special issue celebrates the novel’s silver anniversary with six fresh re-readings by prominent Wallace readers.
den Dulk, Allard, Masiero, Pia
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Postironic sensibility in My Appearance by David Foster Wallace
Language, Culture, Politics, 2023 This paper aims to show how David Foster Wallace uses the story My Appearance to convey his ideas on postmodernism and irony. I argue that two sensibilities, ironic and post-ironic, are represented by the main characters David Letterman and Edilyn ...
Malina Załużna-Łuczkiewicz
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David Foster Wallace croisiériste. Le méga-paquebot comme destination finale du tourisme de masse
Captures, 2021 Cet article est consacré à l’essai « Un truc soi-disant super auquel on ne me reprendra pas », dans lequel David Foster Wallace rend compte de son expérience de croisiériste à bord d’un méga-paquebot.
Olivier Parenteau
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«Apocalyptically worrisome»: modernità tecno-mediatica e tradizione letteraria del presente
Comparatismi, 2019 L’articolo ripercorre le riflessioni di Jonathan Franzen su letteratura, nuovi media e società contemporanea, collegandole ad altre di David Foster Wallace e Karl Kraus.
Stefano Ballerio
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