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Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest [PDF]
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 ...
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Asbestos populism in David Foster Wallace’sInfinite Jest [PDF]
Safundi, 2020 This essay considers the changing relationship between asbestos and populism, as both terms travel across different semantic contexts.
Arthur Rose
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The Triumph of the Will of Athletes in Infinite Jest [PDF]
English Literature, 2022 In 1995, in the introduction to Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game, Jay Jennings lamented that there were still “no great” tennis novels. Had the collection been published just a year later, a revision would have been in order.
Dunne, Stephen, Pedersen, Michael
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Infinite Jest’s Voice(s) [PDF]
English Literature, 2021 We often refer to a book as having a voice that sounds uniquely distinctive, a voice that stays with us after a book is over. Voice is a key narratological term; together with its twin partner – focalization – it constitutes the skeleton of a given ...
Masiero, Pia, Ardovino, Adriano
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“I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis [PDF]
English Literature, 2021 Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915), with Gregor Samsa’s transformation “into a gigantic insect”, forms an insightful comparative reading to the opening of Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), including Hal Incandenza’s seeming, unexplained catatonia. Wallace
den Dulk, Allard
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White Guys: Questioning Infinite Jest’s New Sincerity
Orbit, 2017 This article questions the idea that David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest instigates new forms of sincerity. We begin by scrutinizing the theoretical underpinnings of Adam Kelly’s influential reading of such ‘New Sincerity’.
Edward Jackson, Joel Roberts
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Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace: On Parallel Tracks? [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2021 The article discusses ways in which David Foster Wallace engages with Dostoevsky’s life and works. The article points out that Wallace’s commencement speech, “This Is Water,” makes no direct references to Dostoevsky, yet the moral and spiritual values ...
Ellen Chances
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Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
English Literature, 2021 This essay asks why radio host Rush Limbaugh appears in Infinite Jest as president and what this detail suggests about the relationship of the novel to conservative media, the later rise of Donald Trump, and radio’s role in Wallace’s imagination of ...
Severs, Jeffrey
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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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The Triumph of the Will of Athletes in Infinite Jest
English Literature, 2021 In 1995, in the introduction to Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game, Jay Jennings lamented that there were still “no great” tennis novels.
Redgate, Jamie
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