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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dulk, Allard <<den>>[Herausgeber]
• Masiero, Pia[Herausgeber]
• Ardovino, Adriano[Herausgeber]

Titel

Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature

Ort / Verlag

Manchester : Manchester University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction: David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature - Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero and Adriano Ardovino; Part I: General perspectives ; 1 Absorbing art: the Hegelian project of Infinite Jest - Adam Kelly ; 2 Stages, Socrates, and the performer stripped bare: David Foster Wallace as philosopher-dramatist - Jeffrey Severs; 3 'A matter of perspective': 'Good Old Neon' between literature and philosophy - Adriano Ardovino and Pia Masiero; 4 The influence of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism on David Foster Wallace - Paolo Pitari; Part II: Consciousness, self and others ; 5 'What all she'd so painfully learned said about her': a comparative reading of David Foster Wallace's 'The Depressed Person' and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground - Allard den Dulk; 6 Infinite Jest's 'trinity of you and I into we': Wallace's 'click' between Joyce's literary consubstantiality and Wittgenstein's family resemblance - Dominik Steinhilber; 7 Solipsism, loneliness, alienation: David Foster Wallace as interpreter of Wittgenstein - Guido Baggio; 8 'This is just my opinion': modelling a public sphere in The Pale King - Daniel South ; 9 Pioneers of consciousness: hypothesis for a diptych - Lorenzo Marchese ; 10 The problem of other minds in 'Good Old Neon' - Matt Prout ; Part III: Embodiment, gender and sexuality ; 11 'I am in here': David Foster Wallace and the body as object - Clare Hayes-Brady ; 12 'The interstices of her sense of something': David Foster Wallace, the quest for affect, and the future of gendered interactions - Mara Mattoscio; 13 'You are loved': race, love, and language in early Wallace - Lola Boorman ; 14 'They remain just bodies': on pornography in David Foster Wallace (1989-2006) - Chiara Scarlato; 15 'Something staring back at you': an anamorphic reading of Infinite Jest - Angelo Maria Grossi; Index -- .