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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Infinite Jest"”.
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Alcoholics Polyphonous: Wittgenstein's Linguistic Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
… 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 Language …
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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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"The Hazards of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking in Infinite Jest
… 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. The novel, in large part, …
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Idiopathy: A novel and ‘A Failed Entertainment:’ The process of paying attention in and to Infinite Jest
… The Process of Paying Attention In and To Infinite Jest. Idiopathy examines the inner lives of three friends and their experiences of both separation and a reunion. By emphasising internality over externality it seeks to examine the notion that how we feel about our lives may be more …
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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>
<em>Infinite Jest</em> is a one-thousand, seventy-nine page novel and it weighs almost three pounds; it is heavy 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 …
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
… 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 lethal; …
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
… 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 lethal; …
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The Level Game: Architectures of Play in American Fiction and Theory, 1968–2018
… arrangement. This is exemplified by Wallace’s Infinite Jest, which my next chapter examines in relation to the mise en abyme and the play within the play. I conclude by suggesting that the physical traversal demanded by the novel is a means of restoring the boundaries of play to the infinite …
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Elegant Complexity: The Presence of Cold War Game Theory In Postmodern American Fiction
… (1986), <em>Prisoner's Dilemma</em> (1988), <em>Infinite Jest</em> (1996), and <em>No Country for Old Men</em> (2005) these authors interrogate the ethics and efficacy of deterministic models of behavior, and ultimately renounce the perfect rationality that underwrites Cold War Manichean …
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Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
… 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 remains as to which …
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"In the shadows" : David Foster Wallace and multicultural America
… increasingly politicised female readership. In Infinite Jest, I examine Wallace's attempt to almost "out-traumatise" black women's writing of the 1990s by delivering a sprawling anthology of white hardship and anguish (grounded mainly in upper-middle-class experience). In The Pale King and …
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Warfare by Other Means: The Rhetoric of War and Sport in the Twentieth Century
… End Zone (1972) and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996) satirise the logic of nuclear strategy by employing the formal properties of information theory in their language, collapsing the distinctions between war and sport when each is subjected to computational representation. The …