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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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, 2021 The first Polish study on the work of one of the most significant American authors of the turn of the centuries offers an overview of Wallace's oeuvre featuring its major themes, recurrent in a variety of contexts, important philosophical influences, and characteristic qualities of his poetics.
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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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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Research on digital media use and adolescents' development and well‐being remains inconclusive, and adolescents' own perspectives on these issues are largely unexplored. Nevertheless, concrete policy measures are being implemented to regulate adolescents' digital media use.
Luka Todorovic +2 more
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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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English Literature, 2021 Although readers are more likely to dwell upon particularly funny, surprising, or disturbing moments in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, the novel contains many instances of breathtaking poeticism. A close reading of a few such lines, hidden gems
Shapiro, Mary
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Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This manuscript provides a literary analysis of the use of bodies in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The novel describes a world where oversaturation of external stimulation leads to the perception of mind and body of self of an ...
Ana Chapman +3 more
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The House of Lords and Devolution: Already a Chamber of the Nations and Regions?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of the House of Lords with an ‘assembly of the nations and regions’.
Adam Evans
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Some culture is hiding in plain sight in research on child development
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Child development is cultural in nature, yet a divide persists between a (cross‐)cultural developmental science niche alongside a seemingly a‐cultural mainstream. In particular, childhood research relying on convenience sampling in often Western, post‐industrial (i.e., WEIRD) societies rarely ventures into issues of culture and context ...
Roman Stengelin
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