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Consider David Foster Wallace, or reconsidering DFW : literary self-fashioning and slacker genius.

, 2013
In the five years since he took his own life, the literary world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the late David Foster Wallace. Two posthumous books have been published; countless newspaper articles and magazine pieces have been written; and a ...
Miller, Michael Franklin
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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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This is Water David Foster Wallace Memorial [PDF]

A poster created for the 2024 NH Humanities Collaborative Spring Symposium with the theme of Memory & Memorials.
Flusser, Maeve
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David Foster Wallace and Disability

, 2022
In this chapter, I approach Wallace’s engagement with physical and cognitive disability with this concept in mind, to argue that he is not so much a writer of the grotesque as he is a humanist who figures disability and the disabled person as opportunities to ‘forge’ sincere interpersonal relations both between characters and between character and ...
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