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«Mathematically uncontrolled but humanly contained». L'approccio distopico in David Foster Wallace

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David Foster Wallace wrote two dystopian novels, both set in a near future and depicting the same sort of disastrous political landscapes. This study aims to compare the two works, identifying similarities in the characters and plot between The Broom of
Lorenzo Biondi
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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
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Preferential Consideration: Bartleby, Class, and Genocide in David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017
This article presents the case for reading Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a key intertext for David Foster Wallace’s 2004 essay, “Consider the Lobster”.
Martin Paul Eve
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Digamos que foi algo que… eu li: David Foster Wallace e uma ética do leitor

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RESUMO: Revisito, no texto, propostas analíticas em torno do texto "Octeto", de Foster Wallace, para abrir um problema maior: a chave de leitura de autores suicidas como uma imputação anacrônica à qual o texto não tem possibilidade de devolutiva, dada a
Fabio Pomponio Saldanha
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Review of Tim Personn, Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus (Bloomsbury, 2026)

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A book review of Tim Personn, Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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What water?

In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2010
Recently I was lucky enough to come across the publication of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace in 2005 to a group of wide-eyed graduates from Kenyon College.
Sara Seely
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Sintomas do contemporâneo pela mediação "etnográfica" do jornalismo literário: anotações sobre os textos de não-ficção de David Foster Wallace

Terra Roxa e Outras Terras: Revista de Estudos Literários, 2014
Neste artigo, são analisadas três reportagens-ensaio-crônicas de viagem do escritor estadunidense David Foster Wallace, datadas de 1990 até princípios do século XXI.
Lilian Reichert Coelho
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Pattern/randomness. Il rapporto fra testo e lettore in Infinite Jest di David Foster Wallace

Altre Modernità, 2013
David Foster Wallace questioned the previous literary tradition usually defined as “postmodern” through his narrative and non-fiction production. Following Katherine Hayles, it is possible to consider the decreasing prominence of the presence/absence ...
Ugo Panzani
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David Foster Wallace and Repressive Taboos: Clenette Henderson, yrstruly and the identity politics of representation

Forum, 2017
David Foster Wallace’s use of disenfranchised voices in Infinite Jest (1996) receives little critical attention. Clenette Henderson and yrstruly’s narratives raise issues of taboo subjects: child sexual abuse, drug-addiction, and prostitution.
Matthew Alexander
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The unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace: language, identity, and resistance / David Foster Wallace: fiction and form [PDF]

Textual Practice, 2017
Since his death in 2008, the work of David Foster Wallace has stood at the centre of a rapidly accumulating field of popular and academic attention.
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