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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
INFINITE JEST THESIS PAGE
This has been a long time coming but finally one more thesis have been added to The Howling Fantods. I still need to create links to the footnotes in the new ones but they are readable and have been cleared by the authors. And finally, sorry for the misunderstanding Toon!
- 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.
- 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.
- NEW 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)
Longer Papers, Not specific to IJ:
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