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International Law, Infinite Jest
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017This short paper shows how international law mirrors David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". While it should generally be of interest to both international lawyers and aficionados of "Infinite Jest", hopefully it also satisfies an urge we all sometimes feel when coping with the rigid rules of our professional discipline: the urge to smile for fear of ...
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Representing Entertainment(s) in Infinite Jest
Studies in the Novel, 2012The title of David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest refers, amongst other things, to several films of the same title directed by one of the novel's characters, James O. Incandenza (also known as Himself and the Mad Stork), the last of which provides what Wallace refers to (using, not untypically, a term taken from the realm of cinema) as the ...
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2008
Abstract Infinite Jest is an enormous, transfixingly complex novel about a film, also called Infinite Jest, that is so compelling, those who sit down to watch it never stand up again.1 Among the possible prototypes for this unusual plot device, Beckett’s Film may seem one of the least likely, but the similarities are striking nonetheless.
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Abstract Infinite Jest is an enormous, transfixingly complex novel about a film, also called Infinite Jest, that is so compelling, those who sit down to watch it never stand up again.1 Among the possible prototypes for this unusual plot device, Beckett’s Film may seem one of the least likely, but the similarities are striking nonetheless.
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Anti-Interiority: Compulsiveness, Objectification, and Identity in Infinite Jest
New Literary History, 2010n david foster wallace’s 1996 behemoth Infinite Jest, everyone is an addict. More precisely, everyone is a compulsive user: of crack, Demerol, booze, elite competitive tennis, M*A*S*H, household bleach. Recovering drug addict Don Gately emerges as one of the sprawling novel’s heroes, in part because of his success in recovery.
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