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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 27–54.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Mark McGurl This essay examines David Foster Wallace as a “program” writer in various senses, including as a graduate of a creative writing program and participant in twelve-step recovery programs. It argues that what makes Wallace most distinctive in literary historical terms is his rejection...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 211–229.
Published: 01 May 2015
...J. T. Barbarese From the outset, Wallace Stevens’s reputation has proven a vexation for even supportive critics. While the New Critics wanted his work to look more high modernist than late Romantic, “Romantic-modernists,” resenting even the possibility that Romanticism was passé, argued...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 59–86.
Published: 01 August 2013
... systematically fails to translate non-English works into English, I argue that critiques of the whole literary field, based on the close reading of individual texts, overlook the systemic and institutional grounds of American unworldliness. David Foster Wallace’s 2004 novella, “The Suffering Channel,” offers...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 97–124.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Henry Veggian “Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship and Exchange Value in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King ” considers the materiality of the printed book where postmodern theories of culture intersect with the contemporary economics of the print publishing, digital publishing, and antiquarian...
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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...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 183–202.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Al Filreis What reputation and influence has Wallace Stevens had in the years since 1975? The infamous Stevensean disaffection has tended to prohibit definitive legacy, and yet this, in the end, has been productive, forestalling closed arguments among poetics Lefts and Rights, keeping Stevens's...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... In this review essay of Badiou's recent collection, The Age of the Poets , I will scrutinize Badiou's readings of literature, and in particular his readings of Wallace Stevens, in order to pose a series of more general, interlinked questions. First, what are the strengths and limitations of recent Continental...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 11–30.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Mark Greif The category of the “big, ambitious novel,” circumscribing works by authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace, and William Vollmann, has come to constitute one of the major forms through which postwar U.S. fiction is sorted and evaluated. A history of this form...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 251–262.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Ben Lerner This essay attempts to take the measure of Robert Creeley's some sixty-year commitment to poetry as a medium for tracking the processes of thinking and speaking, not for the production of finished thoughts. By reading Creeley against Wallace Stevens, I hope to both identify...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 227–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Herman Wallace, another prisoner who had joined the Black Panthers while in prison. Eventually, they created a chapter of the Black Panther Party inside Angola. They talked to prisoners about the party's program—which enumerated a series of demands regarding employment, housing, education, justice...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 179–201.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., it is due to the laborious contingency of their creation. 1 The relevant question, then, is how much longer that arduous process will be tolerated. Not for nothing does Wallace, Denis Villeneuve's Silicon Valley update on Scott's android mogul Tyrell, slice open the congenitally barren womb of a fresh...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 289–293.
Published: 01 February 2002
... 2002 Books Received
Adorno, Theodor W. Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason.’ Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans.
Rodney Livingstone. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Armbruster, Karla, and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. Beyond Nature Writing: Expand-
ing the Boundaries of Ecocriticism...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 229–234.
Published: 01 August 2009
... in the context of our current political situa-
tion, I am struck by the palpable presence of war in so much of their poetry
and prose—especially in Williams and Wallace Stevens. While it’s rarely
treated head-on, it permeates—or, like the rose in “Spring and All,” “pene-
trates”—the “space” of their pages...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 123–158.
Published: 01 August 2014
... to find him worth thinking about and writing about.
In some ways, Wallace Stevens has been more important for me
over the years than Williams. Stevens is an earlier interest, going back to
graduate school. And he’s a different kind of challenge. What do you do
with a poet who is conspicuously...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 February 2006
... (in
Czechoslovakia and in Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party) had crumbled.
His death was symptomatic of the collapse of community, both in the nar-
row sense of friends, lovers, and companions, and in the broad, as the form
of communal democracy espoused by Matthiessen disappeared. By 1950,
the American popular...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2000) 27 (2): 217–218.
Published: 01 May 2000
... A Poetics of American Privacy: Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens
(1923).
Tseng 2000.5.26 09:03 OCV:1 ...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 207–208.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Foster Wallace and “The Long
Thing” (2014), and The Silence of Fallout (2013). He is also the author of a volume
of poetry, The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015), and his poems have appeared in
numerous journals, including Empty Mirror, PLINTH, Short Po(r)tions, Spork, and
Verse. He blogs...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of disability, with special reference to Hannah Weiner; Al Filreis sur-
veys Wallace Stevens’s post-’75 shadows; Jim Rosenberg assesses digital
spaces; Elizabeth Willis addresses the sociality of the lyric as a means to
encounter her own generation’s poetics practices; Brian Reed also takes
on his...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 181–183.
Published: 01 August 2013
...: Duke University Press, 2013.
Fuss, Diana. Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2013.
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. After 1945: Latency as Origin of the Present. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 2013.
Heble, Ajay, and Rob Wallace, eds. People Get Ready...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 185–186.
Published: 01 August 2013
...
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace and wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse. He is cur-
rently completing a literary history of countercultural irony in American fiction after
World War II.
Dotan Leshem is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Comparative Literature and
Society at Columbia University. His...
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