Essays about: "David Foster Wallace"
Found 5 essays containing the words David Foster Wallace.
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1. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. READ MORE
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2. Lost in a Bureaucratic World A Thematic Study of Boredom in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Abstract: In David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, two themes appear connected to each other. The first is that of boredom. READ MORE
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3. Consider the Invitation: Empathy in David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapAbstract : This thesis explores the notion of empathy in David Foster Wallace’s short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). Following a discussion of narrative empathy and theory of mind, an analysis of how empathy is portrayed on the diegetic level, i.e. between characters, is performed. READ MORE
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4. Infinite Endnotes and Important Clichés: New Sincerity in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapAbstract : In the past decades, a field of so-called Wallace Studies, i.e. academic studies dedicated to the investigation of David Foster Wallace’s writings, has emerged and developed. These studies are often connected to the equally new literary concept of new sincerity. READ MORE
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5. Pale King or Noonday Demon? Acedia, The Pale King, and David Foster Wallace's Moral Vision.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapAbstract : This essay argues that acedia is a helpful concept in illuminating the fiction of the American author David Foster Wallace, particularly his unfinished novel The Pale King. Following a brief biographical sketch of Wallace, the essay explores the development of the term acedia—which means something along the lines of apathy, sloth, and listlessness—and the two types of acedia: personal acedia and the broader form of cultural acedia. READ MORE
