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Consider David Foster Wallace
by
David Hering
June 8, 2017 - June 10, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace)
Hering, D. (2015). Consider David Foster Wallace. Sideshow Media Group.
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censorious »
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(noun) abyss
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syncopated »
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connubial »
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X works for General Motors. All day long he perfo…
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journalism can lead to a moment of real human con…
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[...] What's so terrifying about the narrator's n…
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The second example is footnote 119, a brief comme…
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In a pithy formulation, Steven Connor has quipped…
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Editor's Preface
from an event at the University of Liverpool, July 29-30 2009. starts with "and but so"
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Editor's Preface
from an event at the University of Liverpool, July 29-30 2009. starts with "and but so"
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Introduction: Consider David Foster Wallace
on why DFW is special and how we need to get him taught in more classrooms
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Introduction: Consider David Foster Wallace
on why DFW is special and how we need to get him taught in more classrooms
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The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace
probably similar to section 566. Wittgenstein, Ricoeur, Rorty
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The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Philosophical Groundings in the Work of David Foster Wallace
probably similar to section 566. Wittgenstein, Ricoeur, Rorty
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A Blasted Region: David Foster Wallace's Man-made Landscapes
the GOD in Broom and Great Concavity in IJ
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A Blasted Region: David Foster Wallace's Man-made Landscapes
the GOD in Broom and Great Concavity in IJ
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David Foster Wallace: Westward with Fredric Jameson
Connie Luther
(missing author)
on Westward, and the motivation behind it, and how it fits in with Fredric Jameson's conception of postmodernity
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David Foster Wallace: Westward with Fredric Jameson
Connie Luther
(missing author)
on Westward, and the motivation behind it, and how it fits in with Fredric Jameson's conception of postmodernity
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Consider Berkeley & Co.: Reading "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way"
George Berkeley's poetry and how it relates to Westward
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Consider Berkeley & Co.: Reading "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way"
George Berkeley's poetry and how it relates to Westward
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The Ideal Athlete: John Wayne in Infinite Jest
about John Wayne as a representative of all Canadians? idk, very far-fetched imo
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The Ideal Athlete: John Wayne in Infinite Jest
about John Wayne as a representative of all Canadians? idk, very far-fetched imo
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Infinite Jest: Triangles, Cycles, Choices & Chases
Sierpinski gaskets, geographical triangles (in Boston), and other things in IJ. thought this was very silly
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Infinite Jest: Triangles, Cycles, Choices & Chases
Sierpinski gaskets, geographical triangles (in Boston), and other things in IJ. thought this was very silly
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"Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders": Chaos and Realism in Infinite Jest
Kiki Benzon
(missing author)
pretty much what you'd expect from the title. i don't really know what the overall goal was but i think there were some interesting points
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"Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders": Chaos and Realism in Infinite Jest
Kiki Benzon
(missing author)
pretty much what you'd expect from the title. i don't really know what the overall goal was but i think there were some interesting points
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"Impervious to U.S. Parsing": Encyclopedism, Autism, and Infinite Jest
Matt Tresco
(missing author)
idk, have to re-read
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"Impervious to U.S. Parsing": Encyclopedism, Autism, and Infinite Jest
Matt Tresco
(missing author)
idk, have to re-read
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Infinite Jests: David Foster Wallace & Laurence Sterne
Christopher Thomas
(missing author)
the historical connection between IJ and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. never heard of it and i wasn't really convinced by his argument
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Infinite Jests: David Foster Wallace & Laurence Sterne
Christopher Thomas
(missing author)
the historical connection between IJ and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. never heard of it and i wasn't really convinced by his argument
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David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction
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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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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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"Quote unquote love... a type of scotopia": David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Christoforos Diakoulakis
(missing author)
a reading of story 20 (section 614). about how the narrator identifies with the rapist in a disturbing way. mentions Derrida's thoughts on love. kinda interesting but i'm not sure what I took away from this
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"Quote unquote love... a type of scotopia": David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Christoforos Diakoulakis
(missing author)
a reading of story 20 (section 614). about how the narrator identifies with the rapist in a disturbing way. mentions Derrida's thoughts on love. kinda interesting but i'm not sure what I took away from this
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"That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
Iannis Goerlandt
(missing author)
on his footnotes. pretty interesting given the limited nature of the topic. the title refers to section 594, when the green hedges are mentioned as being unlike anything else on Earth (Jeffrey Severs' reading takes it to mean that it's like money). on the footnotes in Supposedly continuing the theme of waste management, and annotation to incur reader annoyance in Depressed Person (as a form of critique), and how footnote usage decreases in Oblivion compared to BI (with Good Old Neon's single footnote being a notable counterexample).
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"That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction)
Iannis Goerlandt
(missing author)
on his footnotes. pretty interesting given the limited nature of the topic. the title refers to section 594, when the green hedges are mentioned as being unlike anything else on Earth (Jeffrey Severs' reading takes it to mean that it's like money). on the footnotes in Supposedly continuing the theme of waste management, and annotation to incur reader annoyance in Depressed Person (as a form of critique), and how footnote usage decreases in Oblivion compared to BI (with Good Old Neon's single footnote being a notable counterexample).
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Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
Thomas Tracey
(missing author)
Smithy, Oblivion, Suffering
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Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
Thomas Tracey
(missing author)
Smithy, Oblivion, Suffering
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Seething Static: Notes on Wallace and Journalism
about his tendency to make stuff up (see, esp, Big Red Son) and how his journalism fits into the wider narrative of the New Journalism. also what The Suffering Channel says about how he saw himself
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Seething Static: Notes on Wallace and Journalism
about his tendency to make stuff up (see, esp, Big Red Son) and how his journalism fits into the wider narrative of the New Journalism. also what The Suffering Channel says about how he saw himself
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Don't Compare, Identify: David Foster Wallace on John McCain
Paul Jenner
(missing author)
DFW saying that his pieces in Lobster are about ideology + how that works in his McCain piece
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Don't Compare, Identify: David Foster Wallace on John McCain
Paul Jenner
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DFW saying that his pieces in Lobster are about ideology + how that works in his McCain piece
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This is Water and the Ethics of Attention: Wallace, Murdoch, and Nussbaum
Daniel Turnball
(missing author)
examining This is Water from the POV of Iris Murdoch and Maria Nussbaum
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This is Water and the Ethics of Attention: Wallace, Murdoch, and Nussbaum
Daniel Turnball
(missing author)
examining This is Water from the POV of Iris Murdoch and Maria Nussbaum
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