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David Lynch’s Influence on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Cinergie, 2017
This essay investigates the influence of the films of David Lynch on David Foster Wallace’s major novel Infinite Jest. It is organized in two sections. Section one illustrates Wallace’s views on what real art should be, as they are expressed in his two ...
Paolo Pitari
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«Infinite Jest» e l'(in)trattenimento

, 2022
In Infinite Jest, uno dei romanzi più importanti degli ultimi decenni, un must per cogliere un quadro particolare del “sentimento del tempo” che ha investito l’uomo nella seconda metà del Novecento, David Foster Wallace plasma un affresco della società contemporanea dell’intrattenimento, dei suoi vizi, problemi, dipendenze, distrazioni, manie ...
Chiara Mazza
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Cliché, Irony and the Necessity of Meaning in Endgame and Infinite Jest

Forum, 2014
With reference to the work of the ordinary language philosopher Stanley Cavell, this essay argues that David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest deploys cliché to expose the workings of ironic language in a way that is complementary to a similar ...
James Cetkovski
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Features of the United States of America in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Pale King

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2023
From a methodological standpoint, the following paper is based on a comparative analysis of two novels written by David Foster Wallace. With a specific perspective for each novel (the motivations of the character known as Rémy Marathe for the first novel,
Săran Raul
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Introduction

English Literature, 2021
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s most famous book, published on February 1, 1996, turned 25 this year. This special issue celebrates the novel’s silver anniversary with six fresh re-readings by prominent Wallace readers.
den Dulk, Allard, Masiero, Pia
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WORLD HISTORY, LITERARY HISTORY: POSTMODERNISM AND AFTER

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022
World History, Literary History: Postmodernism and After. The basic question Christian Moraru raises in his contribution is about the direction in which literary history and criticism overall may be going after postmodernism.
Christian MORARU
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Re-politicizing Mental Illness: Reflections on Boredom and Depression in American Post-postmodern Fiction

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, Kaveh Khodambashi, Pyeaam Abbasi   +2 more
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Jaded selves and body distance: a case study of Cotard’s syndrome in “Infinite Jest”

Journal of English Studies, 2020
This article attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions and sensations arousing from the body for the reviving of the self in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of choices and the external stimuli
Ana Chapman
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Unholy “Saint Dave”: Critical Reception of David Foster Wallace’s Personality and Works. A Review [PDF]

Литература двух Америк
The review examines the critical reception of David Foster Wallace’s personality and works. A particular attention is paid to the appreciation of David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) in foreign criticism as an intellectual, religious writerphilosopher and a ...
Violetta A. Kaiavo
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Post-Postmodernism, the “Affective Turn”, and Inauthenticity

Humanities, 2023
This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” in contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the twenty-first century: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), Jonathan ...
George Kowalik
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