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... such a practice. fictionality Chris Kraus Ben Lerner David Foster Wallace 2016 US election Donald Trump The disturbances of 1968, which in several countries lasted into the following years, having nowhere overthrown the existing organization of the society from which it springs apparently...

... of Missouri. He is author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (2009) and is coediting a collection on David Foster Wallace.  SAIKAT MAJUMDAR is assistant professor of English at Stanford University. His book, Prosaic (forthcoming in 2011), explores the global develop- ment...

... that she seems to presage the move out of the gloom of modernism and into the play of postmodernism. This is where Frost leaves us, with a not entirely necessary coda on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and the ways in which pleasure has been extended, parodied, or recalibrated in the postmodern age...

... of answers to questions posed by "a disembodied .. . voice" (79)-focus on the "Ithaca" episode of UIysses but omit an important play on this form in David Foster Wallace's Brief Inferviews with Hideous Men (1999)? The appended bibliography of "We" narratives (141-42) is useful, but why does it omit...

..., a writer of literary science fiction; Lerner, associated with autofiction; and Egan, frequently grouped with David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers as a practitioner of the “New Sincerity.” Yu's 2010 novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe perhaps unsurprisingly draws Nilges's attention...

... aspect of the novel's ethics of reading is how it implicates readers themselves. A character in David Foster Wallace's 1989 novella, “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,” voices the perceived problem with self-referential fiction: “Metafiction is untrue, as a lover,” he says. “It's the act...

... Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith, and “the long thread” in the 1999 runway show of Issey Miyake. At first glance, this is a dazzling juxtaposition. Yet one can't help but wonder: does “length” really refer to the same thing as applied to a long take, a long sentence, and a long thread? Or is this just...

.... Speaking of contemporary novelists, Zadie Smith has argued that “it’s not the writer’s job ‘to tell us how somebody felt about something, it’s to tell us how the world works’” (qtd. in Wood). Citing novelists like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, she comments: “[T]hese are guys who know a great...

... in the hands of white writers like Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace, makes claims to diagnose American culture on a large scale. 8 As Lai Ying Yu observes, I Hotel is not a straightforward chronicle of the effort to save the hotel. The bulk of the novel concerns, instead...

... a bibliography, footnotes, a table of contents, a cast of characters, a learned introduction to each chapter, and so on. This formal apparatus recalls postmodern fictions of the kind pioneered by David Foster Wallace, but it also evokes mock-academic fictions such as Borges's A Universal History of Infamy...

... , 2002 . Carey Mathew . A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia . Philadelphia : Mathew Carey , 1793 . Carr David . “Flying Solo Past the Point of No Return.” New York Times . 13 April 2007 : C1 . Castells Manuel . The Rise...

... of sentences extending to twelve or more versions. Not for Coetzee the project of entertaining readers by exploiting language's capacity to meander and proliferate; his work is at the opposite extreme from that of, say, Philip Roth or David Foster Wallace. (This is one reason why his writing cannot be called...

... of a particular historical phase are found [in typical characters] in concentrated form” (122). 5 For a more detailed account of this divergence, see Wegner . However, Paul Dawson argues that the contemporary renovation of the classical “omniscient author,” in authors such as David Foster Wallace...

... that major novelists such as Rushdie, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith had begun to overstuff the realist novel, cranking it up into a manic machine that fails to compensate for its evident failure at rounded realist characterization. Partially in response to Wood's defense of traditional...

... a profound impact on the novel, especially in terms of conceptions of time and perspective, quantum physics, with some exceptions—Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, for example—has perhaps penetrated less deeply into the novelistic imagination. This should not stop us, however, from thinking in terms...

...” (291). In considering the sheer multiplicity of this novel's narrative threads and the forms of narrative material that accumulate, it is not wrong to note the encyclopedic ambitions of John Henry Days or to include Don DeLillo's Underworld and David Foster Wallace's maximalism in its...