David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" —— New Essays on the Novels

----- 大卫·福斯特·华莱士和“长物”：新杂文小说

ISBN: 9781628920635 出版年：2014 页码：273 Marshall Boswell Bloomsbury Publishing

List of Abbreviations Preface: "David Foster Wallace and the Long Thing" Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College, USA Part I: Wallace as Novelist David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas Adam Kelly, University of York, United Kingdom Wallace and Empathy: A Narrative Approach Toon Staes, University of Antwerp, Belgium Boredom, Irony, and Anxiety: Wallace and the Kierkegaardian View of the Self Allard den Dulk, Amsterdam University College, Netherlands Modelling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King Andrew Warren, Harvard University, USA Part II: The Novels The Broom of the System (1989) "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction Bradley J. Fest, University of Pittsburgh, USA Infinite Jest (1996) Representing Entertainment in Infinite Jest Philip Sayers, University of Toronto, Canada Encyclopedic Novels and the Cruft of Fiction: Infinite Jest's Endnotes David Letzler, CUNY Graduate Center, USA The Pale King (2011) "A Paradigm for the Life of Consciousness": The Pale King Stephen Burn, University of Glasgow, Scotland "What Am I, a Machine?": Humans and Information in The Pale King Conley Wouters, Brandeis University, USA The Politics of Boredom and the Boredom of Politics in The Pale King Ralph Clare, Boise State University, USA Trickle-Down Citizenship: Taxes and Civic Responsibility in The Pale King Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College, USA Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index