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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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Author : David Foster Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2009-09-24
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men written by David Foster Wallace and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-24 with Fiction categories.
In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.
A Not So Brief Interview With David Foster Wallace S Hideous Men
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Author : Nandini Nalam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025
A Not So Brief Interview With David Foster Wallace S Hideous Men written by Nandini Nalam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with categories.
My thesis assesses the quality of self-conceptualisation and self- representation in David Foster Wallace’s anthology ‘Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.’ My first chapter articulates the struggle to represent the self, where I talk about the postmodern fragmentation of thought and language, alongside silencing as a motif in Wallace’s text. My second chapter then locates a subsequent, compromised self-representation that emerges from the struggle. This self-representation is “negotiated” within complex artistic, familial or relational spheres, and is ultimately characterised by shame, anger and lovelessness. Gender (as an oppressive force) is considered. My third chapter ultimately locates an alternative outcome in Wallace’s other characters, where their struggle to represent themselves results instead in an idealistic, constantly revising paralysis. Here, I focus on stylistic choices like repetition or a dialogic internal voice. Consistently, I am concerned with genre and how the gestural, episodic nature of the short story lends itself to disembodied, alienated depictions of the self. I conclude with reflections on masculinity and authorial reception.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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Author : David Foster Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men written by David Foster Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Short stories, American categories.
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers.
Understanding David Foster Wallace
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Author : Marshall Boswell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Understanding David Foster Wallace written by Marshall Boswell and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
Marshall Boswell examines the four major works of fiction David Foster Wallace has produced thus far: the novels The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest and the story collections Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
David Foster Wallace S Toxic Sexuality
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Author : Edward Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-11
David Foster Wallace S Toxic Sexuality written by Edward Jackson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics is the first full-length study of perhaps the most controversial aspect of Wallace's work – male sexuality. Departing from biographical accounts of Wallace's troubled relationship to sex, the book offers new and engaging close readings of this vexed topic in both his fiction and non-fiction. Wallace consistently returns to images of sexual toxicity across his career to argue that, when it comes to sex, men are immutably hideous. He makes this argument by drawing on a variety of neoliberal logics and spermatic metaphors, which in their appeal to apparently neutral economic processes and natural bodily facts, forestall the possibility that men can change. The book therefore provides a revisionist account of Wallace's attitudes towards capitalism, as well as a critical dissection of his approach to masculinity and sexuality. In doing so, David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality shows how Wallace can be considered a neoliberal writer, whose commitment to furthering male sexual toxicity is a disturbing but undeniable part of his literary project.
Changing My Mind
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Author : Zadie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Changing My Mind written by Zadie Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with Literary Collections categories.
"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny--a gift to readers and writers both.
David Foster Wallace In Context
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Author : Clare Hayes-Brady
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-01
David Foster Wallace In Context written by Clare Hayes-Brady and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable resource, this volume conceptualizes his work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and long-standing readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer.
The Cambridge Companion To David Foster Wallace
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Author : Ralph Clare
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20
The Cambridge Companion To David Foster Wallace written by Ralph Clare and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.
New Media And The Transformation Of Postmodern American Literature
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Author : Casey Michael Henry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-07
New Media And The Transformation Of Postmodern American Literature written by Casey Michael Henry and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them.
A Companion To David Foster Wallace Studies
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Author : M. Boswell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-03-20
A Companion To David Foster Wallace Studies written by M. Boswell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-20 with Social Science categories.
Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa ll ace is designed as a professional study of all of Wallace's creative work. This volume includes both thematic essays and focused examinations of each of his major works of fiction.