Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature / edited by Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero, and Adriano Ardovino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dulk, Allard den, 1978- editor.

Masiero, Pia, editor.

Ardovino, Adriano, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wallace, David Foster--Criticism and interpretation.

Wallace, David Foster.

Philosophy in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 343 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Manchester] : Manchester University Press, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 / Pia Masiero

4. The influence of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism on David Foster Wallace / Paolo Pitari

pt. 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

pt. 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 Grossi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature.

ISBN:

9781526163547

1526163543

OCLC:

1303079651