Sökning: "David Foster Wallace"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden David Foster Wallace.

1. 1. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Författare :Andrea Minucci; [2018]
   Nyckelord :David; Foster; Wallace; Postmodernism; Literature; Infinite; Jest; Death of the Author; media studies; image-fiction; intermediality; transmediality; narrative; theory; narratology; heteroglossia; ekphrasis;

   Sammanfattning : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. LÄS MER

3. 2. Lost in a Bureaucratic World A Thematic Study of Boredom in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Julia Englund Örn; [2015-10-16]
   Nyckelord :David Foster Wallace; The Pale King; bureaucracy; melancholia;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract: In David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, two themes appear connected to each other. The first is that of boredom. LÄS MER

4. 3. Consider the Invitation: Empathy in David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Författare :Aili Pettersson Peeker; [2015]
   Nyckelord :David Foster Wallace; Second-Person Narration; Narrative Theory; Narrative Empathy; Empathy; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the notion of empathy in David Foster Wallace’s short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). Following a discussion of narrative empathy and theory of mind, an analysis of how empathy is portrayed on the diegetic level, i.e. between characters, is performed. LÄS MER

5. 4. Infinite Endnotes and Important Clichés: New Sincerity in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Författare :Aili Pettersson Peeker; [2014]
   Nyckelord :New Sincerity; Post-postmodernism; Cliché; David Foster Wallace; Irony; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : In the past decades, a field of so-called Wallace Studies, i.e. academic studies dedicated to the investigation of David Foster Wallace’s writings, has emerged and developed. These studies are often connected to the equally new literary concept of new sincerity. LÄS MER

7. 5. The song of the prisoner who’s come to hate his cage: Det anti-ironiska projektet hos David Foster Wallace

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Författare :Philip Stålhandske; [2013]
   Nyckelord :David Foster Wallace; Fredric Jameson; The Suffering Channel; Infinite Jest; Oblivion; ironi; litteraturanalys; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : Den här uppsatsen behandlar hur David Foster Wallace i sitt författarskap bedriver ett anti-ironiskt projekt för att återupprätta det naiva och autentiska. Detta tolkas, med Fredric Jamesons teorier om ”det politiska omedvetna”, som en antikapitalistiskt tendens. LÄS MER