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Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern Spaces

There's an article by David Hering over at the British Association for American Studies, Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern Spaces:
Prevailing critical discussion of the works of the writer David Foster Wallace—particularly his most celebrated novel Infinite Jest—has focused around the manner in which Wallace uses the ironic dimension of postmodern literature against itself in order to attempt a ‘post-postmodern’ form of American fiction. In this article, however, I will address the as-yet critically neglected technique in Infinite Jest by which Wallace articulates and attempts to counter the problems of literary and cultural Postmodernism through geographical, spatial and temporal narrative strategies.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 January 2014 18:39  

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