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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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Watching As The World Turns: Performance, Everyday Life, and the Self in the Novels of David Foster Wallace [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis examines manifestations of performance in the novels of David Foster Wallace. It argues that as Wallace engages with the theme of performance he concurrently addresses the related topics of everyday life and the self.
South, Daniel
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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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, 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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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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Teacher–student relationships in practice: Student perceptions of positive teaching
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Teacher–student relationships (TSR) significantly shape teaching and learning processes. Current research rarely leverages qualitative analyses of students' perceptions, leaving a critical gap in understanding how positive TSR manifest from students' perspectives.
Orly Shapira +2 more
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David Foster Wallace on the Good Life [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter presents David Foster Wallace's views about three positions regarding the good life—ironism, hedonism, and narrative theories. Ironism involves distancing oneself from everything one says or does, and putting on Wallace's so-called “mask of ...
Ballantyne, Nathan, Tosi, Justin
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Modeling species distributions in dynamic pelagic environments remains challenging, particularly for wide‐ranging and highly mobile species when there is limited guidance on model performance. This limitation constrains the effective use of species distribution models (SDMs) in marine conservation, where robust and transferable predictions are
E. Pasanisi +32 more
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The influence of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism on David Foster Wallace
, 2022 This chapter argues that Wallace’s texts exhibit an outstanding alignment with Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism (1979), both in content and – most significantly – in the logic by which the two authors come to analogous conclusions regarding ...
Pitari, Paolo
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