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David Foster Wallace and Lovelessness
Twentieth-Century Literature, 2013 It has become a critical axiom that in his fiction David Foster Wallace turns irony inside out in order to express genuine emotion. "Wallace conceives a treatment for contemporary American solipsism that is drenched in hip irony and negates the 'Other'" (143), Petrus van Ewijk writes, while Paul Giles observes that Wallace "turns ... irony back against
Rando, David P
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David Hering, David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form [PDF]
European Journal of American Studies, 2017 David Hering, David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form Bloomsbury Academic, 216. Pp. 216. ISBN: 9781628920550 Paolo Pitari David Hering’s David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form begins with an original thesis: all of Wallace’s fiction oscillates between ...
Paolo Pitari
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David Foster Wallace and the Body
, 2019 David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a
Peter Sloane (17167462)
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Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering [PDF]
, 2011 Review of Consider David Foster ...
Bradley J. Fest
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Features of the United States of America in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Pale King
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2023 From a methodological standpoint, the following paper is based on a comparative analysis of two novels written by David Foster Wallace. With a specific perspective for each novel (the motivations of the character known as Rémy Marathe for the first novel,
Săran Raul
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On the Virtues and Vices of the Singular Will: Seeking “One Thing” with Kierkegaard
Religions, 2023 In this essay, I follow the example of recent Kierkegaard scholarship in the attempt to consider Kierkegaard’s work from a personal point of view. Accordingly, I begin with a biographical account of my first encounter with Kierkegaard’s notion that ...
J. Aaron Simmons
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Comparatismi, 2016 Il rapporto tra intreccio e temporalità del racconto è un problema teorico complesso, che teorie diverse hanno variamente illuminato. L’articolo discute alcune di queste teorie e riflette su questo problema rileggendo alcune pagine di Roberto Bolaño ...
Stefano Ballerio
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‘They remain just bodies’: on pornography in David Foster Wallace (1989–2006)
, 2022 David Foster Wallace was deeply involved in a tricky and vexed research on pornography from 1989, as the recurrence of this theme in several non-fiction essays, brief stories, novels, interviews, and archival documents makes clear.
SCARLATO C
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Unholy “Saint Dave”: Critical Reception of David Foster Wallace’s Personality and Works. A Review [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикThe review examines the critical reception of David Foster Wallace’s personality and works. A particular attention is paid to the appreciation of David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) in foreign criticism as an intellectual, religious writerphilosopher and a ...
Violetta A. Kaiavo
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Acedia and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
European Journal of American Studies, 2022 The article makes the case for David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King as a literary intervention into the American ethos of productivity, which offers a critique of this ethos by exploiting the trope of acedia, or boredom. Wallace’s novel employs acedia as
Zuzanna Ladyga
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