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The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by
Clare Hayes-Brady
May 28, 2017 - May 29, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace)
Hayes-Brady, C. (2016). The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance. Bloomsbury Academic.
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soporific »
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abrogation »
the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agree…
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abjection »
(noun) a low or downcast state; degradation / (no…
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dialectic »
a discourse between two or more people holding di…
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alterity »
(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of…
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De la Durantaye articulates Wallace's vision as f…
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[...] Wallace distances himself falely from a gro…
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[...] the narrator despises this girl's lifestyle…
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Randall [...] has an elevated opinion of his own …
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[...] In _Oneself as Another_, the published vers…
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Preface
most early DFW criticism focused on: the McCaffery interview; E Unibus Pluram; and Infinite Jest
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Preface
most early DFW criticism focused on: the McCaffery interview; E Unibus Pluram; and Infinite Jest
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Introduction
exploring failure as a theme in DFW's writing, not necessarily any shortcomings on his part. some themes in his work: communication, ethics, free will, boundaried selves
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Introduction
exploring failure as a theme in DFW's writing, not necessarily any shortcomings on his part. some themes in his work: communication, ethics, free will, boundaried selves
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"I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete
title refers to the ending of Broom. talks about David Lynch and the concept of bothness as explored in his films; Derrida; postmodernism; cynicism; authority and authorship
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"I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete
title refers to the ending of Broom. talks about David Lynch and the concept of bothness as explored in his films; Derrida; postmodernism; cynicism; authority and authorship
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"It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World
situating DFW in his time; some thoughts on Westward; on the title of The Pale King
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"It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World
situating DFW in his time; some thoughts on Westward; on the title of The Pale King
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The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy
on philosophy in his works (Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Rorty's Pragmatist ethics)
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The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy
on philosophy in his works (Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and Rorty's Pragmatist ethics)
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"Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication
on philosophy and communication; love as distance explored in Lyndon); communication between the author and the reader and how DFW plays with readers' expectations
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"Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication
on philosophy and communication; love as distance explored in Lyndon); communication between the author and the reader and how DFW plays with readers' expectations
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Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity
the horror of solipsism; narcissism, infancy, and the inner child (in Broom, and other short stories); alterity and the narrative self; establishing community
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Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity
the horror of solipsism; narcissism, infancy, and the inner child (in Broom, and other short stories); alterity and the narrative self; establishing community
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Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure
on the skeletal narrative (destabilizing a narrative from within) and its use in Brief Interviews, Oblivion, etc; how DFW establishes us-vs-them in his nonfiction; how he uses humour
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Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure
on the skeletal narrative (destabilizing a narrative from within) and its use in Brief Interviews, Oblivion, etc; how DFW establishes us-vs-them in his nonfiction; how he uses humour
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"Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body
the quote comes from his review of Wittgenstein's Mistress. on DFW's troubles with non-white, non-male characters; how all of the romantic relationships in his works are dysfunctional; acknowledging the self as an object; the unbreachable distance between individuals
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"Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body
the quote comes from his review of Wittgenstein's Mistress. on DFW's troubles with non-white, non-male characters; how all of the romantic relationships in his works are dysfunctional; acknowledging the self as an object; the unbreachable distance between individuals
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Conclusion
kind of weak as a conclusion imo. about how literature and philosophy can locate a beginning by resisting ending?
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Conclusion
kind of weak as a conclusion imo. about how literature and philosophy can locate a beginning by resisting ending?
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