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Ceci n’est pas le territoire: Transcending the Visual and Literary Frame
Sillages Critiques, 2023 This article explores the concept of frame theory and its relevance in understanding works of literature and art which feature devices traditionally associated with metafiction but which paradoxically avoid purely self-referential modes.
Dane Coult
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Desperately Seeking David: Authorship in the Early Works of David Foster Wallace
Orbit, 2019 The power of David Foster Wallace’s narrative persona has only increased since his death in 2008; however, his early fiction presents alternate perspectives on authorial presence beyond the commonly accepted discourse on Wallace.
Mike Miley
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Il gioco e l’erotismo: David Foster Wallace, Michel Houellebecq e Walter Siti
Enthymema, 2019 L’obiettivo di questo articolo è analizzare le modalità in cui la dimensione del gioco incontra quella del sesso nelle rappresentazioni letterarie dell’erotismo in alcune opere di David Foster Wallace, Michel Houellebecq e Walter Siti. Nello specifico si
Giuseppe Carrara
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Você acaba se tornando você mesmo? O personagem David Foster Wallace
Revista Criação & Crítica, 2019 Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre o mito literário atrelado ao nome David Foster Wallace após o suicídio do autor. Tal reflexão elege como alvo a versão retratada em O fim da turnê (James Ponsoldt, 2015), filme repudiado por familiares e colegas ...
Marcos Namba Beccari
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A toxidez da escrita como um destino da sublimação em David Foster Wallace
Psicologia USP, 2010 A autora discute o conceito de sublimação sob a luz da segunda teoria freudiana do conflito pulsional, a fim de examinar os aspectos funcionais e disfuncionais na criação literária, tomando como exemplo o caso de alguns escritores suicidas para destacar,
Ana Cecília Carvalho
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Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis
English Literature, 2021 David Foster Wallace’s writing has come to be synonymous with post-postmodernism. Strategies that are often singled out in this respect include the return to epic forms of storytelling; a post-ironic attitude towards its subject matter; a concern with
Vermeulen, Timotheus
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Ilha do Desterro, 2021 Figurations of psychological problems, mental illness, boredom, depression, addiction and medication abound in post-postmodern fiction. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and The Pale King and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections are cases in point ...
Hossein Pirnajmuddin +2 more
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Trilogy of Identity Transformation: Reading David Foster Wallace’s Novels
Critical Literary Studies, 2021 The progression of culture and literature in the three subsequent eras of Modernism, Postmodernism and Post Postmodernism since the late-20th-century can be considered as one of the vivid factors that has led to the chain of transformation of man.
Abdolreza Goudarzi, Morteza Lak
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The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace
JAm It!This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the "existentialist ...
Ali Dehdarirad
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Introduction – Supposedly Fun Things: A David Foster Wallace Special Issue
Orbit, 2017 David Foster Wallace’s works continue to attract scholarly interest at a startling rate, and from a variety of perspectives. This special issue reflects some of the continuities and transformations taking place in appraisals of this most influential of ...
Edward William Jackson +2 more
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