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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
The exegesis argues that David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite jest is largely concerned with the addictive nature of television and entertainment The novel examines the possibility of addictive viewing by representing it metaphorically through "Infinite Jest," a film so entertaining it proves …
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
The exegesis argues that David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite jest is largely concerned with the addictive nature of television and entertainment The novel examines the possibility of addictive viewing by representing it metaphorically through "Infinite Jest," a film so entertaining it proves …
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"In the shadows" : David Foster Wallace and multicultural America
This dissertation reads David Foster Wallace's literary output against the complicated history of identity politics and multiculturalism in America. Wallace's career coincides with the institutionalisation of second-wave feminism in the 1980s (including at his own university, Amherst College), the …
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BECOMING INFINITE: A BAKHTINIAN CONSIDERATION OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S INFINITE JEST
<p>In this study of David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>, I combine the linguistic and literary theories of renowned scholar Mikhail Bakhtin to create a new lens through which to consider Wallace’s thematic project. Combining Bakhtin’s linguistic theories of dialogic conflict and …
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Alcoholics Polyphonous: Wittgenstein's Linguistic Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
This thesis examines David Foster Wallace's magnum opus Infinite Jest in terms of its relationship with the linguistic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Starting from a summary of the later Wittgenstein's famous Private Language Argument, I analyze the way Wallace adapts the idea of the Private …
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The Inward Gaze: Byung-Chul Han's Achievement-Subjectivity in David Foster Wallace's Short Fiction
<p>David Foster Wallace stated that the aim of his fiction and art was to reflect what it meant to be alive and form a relationship with the reader. In "E Unibus Plurum", Wallace posited that the tenets of Post-Modern fiction were once used to criticize the hypocrisies of the 1950's and 60's …
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"The New Millennium's Passion for Standing Live Witness to Things:” The Epidemiology of Isolation, Addiction and Redemption in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>
… in a literal and a spiritual sense. The novel is David Foster Wallace’s greatest achievement. It portrays characters who are dramatically isolated from one another and who cannot cope without some form of addiction. This addiction manifests itself in the form of an extreme dependence on drugs …
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"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers
… advice in correspondence between DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Chapter three is devoted to the epistolary relationship between DeLillo and Jonathan Franzen. In Chapter four I compare DeLillo's advice with that of a selection of his contemporaries: William Gass, William Gaddis, Robert …
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"The Hazards of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking in Infinite Jest
… about self-consciousness and how it figures in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>. Because <em>Infinite Jest </em>is such a large novel (1079 pages, including the indispensable footnotes), it serves, like other large novels before it, as a kind of encyclopedia of contemporary culture. …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… self-help and popular psychology in their work. David Foster Wallace, Paul Beatty, Tao Lin, Myriam Gurba, Sheila Heti, Miranda July, Benjamin Kunkel, Alexandra Kleeman, and Ben Lerner all critique and satirize therapeutic self- improvement cultures for their entanglement with late capitalist …
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Against death: the American novel after the end of the author
… by Ralph Ellison, and The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace—and to elaborate in the process new conceptual models of authorship and individuality. Against Death asks us to recognize an individual author’s creative prowess not as singularly immanent, but as the distillate of a …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, Annie Dillard, David Foster Wallace, and Christopher Beha.</p>
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The subject in the big data era: reading fictions of algorithmic manipulation
… Numbers (2015), Nicola Barker’s H(A)PPY (2017), David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (2011), and Neal Stephenson’s Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019), my thesis identifies the extent to which fiction can encourage contestation of a particular understanding of digital culture. I loosely consider these …
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
… murky in-between, like Zadie Smith and the late David Foster Wallace. The point is this: in our “secular age,” and I use this term as the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor does in his book A Secular Age (2007)—“a move from a society where belief in God is unchallenged and indeed, unproblematic, …
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Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
… Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Both are centrifugal novels—texts in which narrators and forms of narration proliferate throughout the narrative. Once this inquiry specifies the narrators and narrating positions in these novels, the question …
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A more perfect union.
… this theme, I was influenced most profoundly by David Foster Wallace, Hubert Selby Jr., Irvine Welsh, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Jose?ü Saramago, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley. The thematic message of the difficulty of obtaining happiness is one that is universal, but the definition employed by …
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Idiopathy: A novel and ‘A Failed Entertainment:’ The process of paying attention in and to Infinite Jest
… figure in the contemporary literary landscape: David Foster Wallace. Specifically, it focuses on his novel Infinite Jest and explores the way in which the novel is designed to encourage a certain kind of attention, which Wallace overtly stated was something he felt was important in contemporary …
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The Level Game: Architectures of Play in American Fiction and Theory, 1968–2018
… in this text. Comparing Barth’s story with David Foster Wallace’s ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way’, I illustrate how Wallace uses the same literary materials as Barth but experiments with their arrangement. This is exemplified by Wallace’s Infinite Jest, which my next chapter …
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