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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 125–149.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Bradley J. Fest This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 27–54.
Published: 01 August 2014
... complete, the novel we know as The Pale King from a pile of
fragments the author left neatly stacked on his desk before hanging himself
a few feet away—was only the first of these. Pietsch’s assignment will be
familiar to anyone who has read Wallace’s longer works, especially Infinite
Jest (1996...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of postmodern parochial-
ism, identified for him with irony and cynicism, that he found himself com-
plicit in perpetuating and that he wanted to escape, hoping to forge a post-
postmodern aesthetic. In the near-future world of Infinite Jest, though its
citizens celebrate Interdependence Day rather than...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 97–124.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Wallace’s Infinite Jest) authored the
note, in which he explains his assembly of the novel (a labor documented
elsewhere in literary blogs as well as the New York Times).7 The note’s
authenticity is beyond dispute, as are Pietsch’s sincerity and proof of his
work. Indeed, Pietsch has...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 11–30.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Rainbow, William Gaddis’s JR, David Foster Wallace’s
Infinite Jest, and William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central help draw a circle
around a particular form of the novel, if not quite a genre. Qualification for
membership in this form seems to help a novel’s odds to win the National
Book Award...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 159–178.
Published: 01 August 2014
... bobdylan.com website on May
13, 2011, the South China Morning Post found irony in Dylan protesting too
much his own social innocence, caused by not having protested enough
at his concerts in Beijing and Shanghai, and jested in an editorial, “Bob
Dylan’s Talkin’ Chinese Blues,” “If anyone is more...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 February 2015
... in reconfiguring the object of
literature and literary study.
9. There are, of course, many ironies in such a claim. American novelist John Barth liked
to jest about the “death of the novel,” particularly when he was writing a new one. As he
put it in his essay “The Literature of Exhaustion,” “The novel...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 33–55.
Published: 01 November 2017
...
in life, of scattering his wit and his humour,—his gibes and his jests about
him—They were not lost for want of gathering” (1.11).
Yorick and his descendant, Tristram, thus embody an attitude at the
antipodes of the politically dominant tendencies of the world in which they
live, one...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 165–215.
Published: 01 August 2011
.... Contesting such a slanderous myth, Gary Giddins teasingly, but
accurately, accuses Armstrong of “promiscuous self-confidence.”18 That
valorizing jest undoes Collier’s slumming viewpoint. Anyone who ever saw
Satchmo onstage came away dazzled by his emotional cheer and physical
energy...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 133–172.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., accordingly, forces us to ask what is the favor that both, at the end of the work, are about to ask (Costa 2016 )? If this short conundrum at first appears to be written simply in jest, we suddenly find that the two who are the same do have important differences in their relationship with one another...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 97–123.
Published: 01 February 2002
..., while it drew from and helped to reconstitute the
boundaries of ‘‘black’’ music.
Even in jest, Dylan always seemed uncomfortable with the term folk
music. In 1966, in another attempt to keep his interlocutor at bay, he tried to
separate clearly his own work from that form. ‘‘Folk music...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 67–97.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of the yuppie as a character type. Even David
Foster Wallace resembles Ellis in deploying marketing language in Infinite
Jest (1996) and his short fiction mainly as a means of critiquing American
consumer culture. When in his novella, Westward the Course of Empire
Takes Its Way, Wallace...
