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Hysterical realism, the fantastic and postmodernism: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

, 2023
The paper is an analysis of some peculiar aspects of David Foster Wallace’s most famous novel, Infinite Jest, concerning particularly the novel’s approach towards traditional realistic and fantastic literary strategies and a general literary ...
Stasiewicz, Piotr
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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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In on the joke: how Infinite Jest represents entertainment addiction [PDF]

, 2020
Entertainment and mass media are proven to be an addictive aspect of our everyday lives. David Foster Wallace was very concerned with media’s dangerous potential, and his 1996 novel Infinite Jest explores this along with other aspects of addiction in ...
Abroi, Ott
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‘They All Sound Like David Foster Wallace’: Syntax and Narrative in Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion and The Pale King

Orbit, 2017
What kind of syntactic arrangement produces the distinctive feel of a Wallace sentence, and how does sentence structure relate to Wallace’s wider themes, the larger narrative structures of his fiction, and the construction of his fictional worlds?
Simon de Bourcier
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Data Journalism. Visualization of Data as a Remedy of Perception Problems of the Modern Reader

Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, 2021
The consistent increase of information is not directly proportional to the increase in attention.
Joanna Dukalska-Hermut, Ewelina Dziwak
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Trilogy of Identity Transformation: Reading David Foster Wallace’s Novels

Critical Literary Studies, 2021
The progression of culture and literature in the three subsequent eras of Modernism, Postmodernism and Post Postmodernism since the late-20th-century can be considered as one of the vivid factors that has led to the chain of transformation of man.
Abdolreza Goudarzi, Morteza Lak
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Storie di rifiuti, rifiuti nelle storie: due prospettive sullo scarto

Altre Modernità, 2020
Scrap, as a residual and not easy to place element, is a common topic in a great number of works in contemporary fiction, where it takes on a precise meaning: waste.
Simone Carati
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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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Equivocationary Horseshit: Post-Correlationist Aesthetics and Post-Critical Ethics in the Works of David Foster Wallace

Open Library of Humanities, 2020
This article argues that David Foster Wallace’s writing can profitably be understood within paradigms of post-critique that show critical thought to be a form of forever-deferred inaction.
Caroline Edwards
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Organizing the interface—Plasma membrane architecture and receptor dynamics in virus‐cell interactions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Plasma membranes contain dynamic nanoscale domains that organize lipids and receptors. Because viruses operate at similar scales, this architecture shapes early infection steps, including attachment, receptor engagement, and entry. Using influenza A virus and HIV‐1 as examples, we highlight how receptor nanoclusters, multivalent glycan interactions ...
Jan Schlegel, Christian Sieben
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