| Description |
xii, 252 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN |
9781628920635 hardback |
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1628920637 hardback |
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9781628924534 paperback |
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1628924535 paperback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas / Adam Kelly -- Wallace and empathy: a narrative approach / Toon Staes -- Boredom, irony, and anxiety: Wallace and the Kierkegaardian view of the self / Allard den Dulk -- Modeling community and narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King / Andrew Warren -- "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's early fiction / Bradley J. Fest -- Representing Entertainment in Infinite Jest / Philip Sayers -- Encyclopedic Novels and the Cruft of Fiction: Infinite Jest's endnotes / David Letzler -- "A Paradigm for the Life of Consciousness": The Pale King / Stephen J. Burn -- "What Am I, a Machine?": Humans and information in The Pale King / Conley Wouters -- The Politics of Boredom and the Boredom of Politics in The Pale King / Ralph Clare -- Trickle-Down Citizenship: Taxes and Civic Responsibility in The Pale King / Marshall Boswell. |
| Library Class |
English XF9623
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| Subject |
Wallace, David Foster -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Other Author |
Boswell, Marshall, 1965- editor.
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