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David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas
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Adam Kelly
on DFW being a novelist of ideas. most criticism refers to the essay-interview nexus of E Unibus Pluram & the preceding McCaffery interview. mentions his Dostoyevskian influences. centered about three pieces of dialogue: LaVache and Lenore talking about Gramma on the hill; Marathe talking about freedom-to vs freedom-from; section 19 of TPK and what it says about DFW's own beliefs (in finding a moral system in a moralless landscape, and moving beyond politics).
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David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas
by
Adam Kelly
on DFW being a novelist of ideas. most criticism refers to the essay-interview nexus of E Unibus Pluram & the preceding McCaffery interview. mentions his Dostoyevskian influences. centered about three pieces of dialogue: LaVache and Lenore talking about Gramma on the hill; Marathe talking about freedom-to vs freedom-from; section 19 of TPK and what it says about DFW's own beliefs (in finding a moral system in a moralless landscape, and moving beyond politics).
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David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction
by
Adam Kelly
examining the idea that DFW is a vanguard in this post-postmodernism wave of authorial sincerity, through the lens of Lionel Trilling's 1972 book Sincerity and Authenticity, where sincerity has to do with inter-personal communication and authenticity simply means being true to the self. sincerity is dialogic in the sense that it requires the reader to participate. great essay
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131
David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction
by
Adam Kelly
examining the idea that DFW is a vanguard in this post-postmodernism wave of authorial sincerity, through the lens of Lionel Trilling's 1972 book Sincerity and Authenticity, where sincerity has to do with inter-personal communication and authenticity simply means being true to the self. sincerity is dialogic in the sense that it requires the reader to participate. great essay
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