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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
THESIS AND CRITICAL PAPERS PAGE- Chris Hager's Thesis On Speculation: Infinite Jest and American Fiction After Postmodernism.
- Noah Raizman's Thesis Call it Something I Ate: language-games, addiction, and dialogic possibility in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
- Toon Theuwis' Thesis The Quest for Infinite Jest: An Inquiry into the Encyclopedic and Postmodernist Nature of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Click HERE for a picture of Toon.
- Travis W. Stern's Thesis "I Am in Here": Fragmentation and the Individual in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
- Not really a thesis, but a shorter paper on IJ. Head over to Scott Eric Kaufman's page to read Demand and the Appearance of Freedom: The Role of Corporate Media in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. (Alternate Archive.org link)
- Teddy Wayne, Addiction To Itself: Self-Consciousness In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
- Brooks Daverman's Honours Paper, The Limits of the Infinite: The Use of Alcoholics Anonymous in Infinite Jest as a Narrative Solution after Postmodernism.
- Read about the differences between The first draft of IJ and the published version. in this excellent essay by Steven Moore.
- Andrew Steven Delfino's Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction - Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (pdf)
- Jan Harris' Addiction and the Societies of Control: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Draft of paper delivered at the 'Addiction and Consumption' Conference, University of Lancaster, May 2002
- Kevin McMorrow's excellent MA Thesis.
- Timothy Henry, 2009, The Language of Landscape, Information, and Disturbance: An Existential Look at the Literary Techniques of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (pdf)
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick's essay about Infinite Summer, Infinite Summer: Reading in the Social Network.
Longer Papers, Not specific to IJ: - Television and Literature: David Foster Wallace's Concept of Image-Fiction, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. Considers some of ASFT and 'Little Expressionless Animals'.
- Zac Farber, 2009, ‘Neurotic and Obsessive’ but ‘Not too Intansigent or Defensive’: Editing David Foster Wallace (pdf)
- Joshua, 2009, Getting Away From It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche's Concept of Oblivion (.pdf), published in LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES, vol.1, no.2, Fall 2009.
- Adam Kelly, 2010, David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline. Irish Journal of American Studies no. 2, Summer 2010
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