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David Foster Wallace in context /
No full textDavid 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.Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2022).David Foster Wallace and narratology / Pia Masiero -- A meeting of minds : David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov and the ethics of empathy / Marshall Boswell -- Writing in a material world : David Foster Wallace and 1980s fiction / Ralph Clare -- Confidence man : Wallace and the American nineteenth century / Catherine Toal -- David Foster Wallace and European literature / Lucas Thompson -- David Foster Wallace and poetry / Philip Coleman -- 'Non'-fiction / Martin Eve -- Thanks everybody and I hope you like it : David Foster Wallace and entertainment / Matthew Luter -- Visual culture / Corrie Baldauf -- Wallace and attention / Alice Bennett -- After analysis : notes on the new sincerity from Wallace to Knausgaard / Jon Baskin -- Perfectionism and the ethics of failure / Áine Mahon -- The pragmatist possibility in David Foster Wallace's writings / Antonio Aguilar Vazquez -- A tale of two theses : system J and The broom of the system / Maureen Eckert -- Free will and determinism / Paul Jenner -- Mathematics of the infinite / Stuart J. Taylor -- Wallace and existentialism / Allard Den Dulk -- David Foster Wallace and religion / Tim Personn -- Mr. Consciousness / Jamie Redgate -- No ordinary love : David Foster Wallace and sex / Emily Russell -- 'The Limits of His Seductively Fine Mind' : Wallace, whiteness and the feminine / Daniela Franca Joffe -- Wallace and masculinity / Edward Jackson -- Theorizing the other / Dominik Steinhilber -- Wallace and disability / Peter Sloane -- Queering Wallace : on the queer history of addiction fiction / Vincent Haddad -- Infinite jest as opiate fiction / Alexander Moran -- David Foster Wallace and racial capitalism / Colton Saylor -- Language and self-creation : David Foster Wallace's many ways of sounding American / Mary Shapiro -- Very old land : David Foster Wallace and the myths and systems of agriculture / Jeffrey Severs -- Ecologies / Laurie McRae Andrew -- 'I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk' : institutions, dialogue and citizenship in David Foster Wallace / Joel Roberts -- David and Dutch : Wallace, Reagan and the US Presidency / David Hering -- Wallace and publishing / Tim Groenland -- Author here, there and everywhere : Wallace and biography / Mike Miley.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
Writing and Learning in Cross-national Perspective: Transitions From Secondary To Higher Education
No full textDespite the increasingly global implications of conversations about writing and learning, U.S. composition studies has devoted little attention to cross-national perspectives on student writing and its roles in wider cultural contexts. Caught up in our own concerns about how U.S. students make the transition as writers from secondary school to postsecondary education, we often overlook the fact that students around the world are undergoing the same evolution. How do the students in China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, or South Africa--the educational systems represented in this collection--write their way into the communities of their chosen disciplines? How, for instance, do students whose mother tongue is not the language of instruction cope with the demands of academic and discipline-specific writing? And in what ways is U.S. students' development as academic writers similar to or different from that of students in other countries? With this collection, editors David Foster and David R. Russell broaden the discussion about the role of writing in various educational systems and cultures. Students' development as academic writers raises issues of student authorship and agency, as well as larger issues of educational access, institutional power relations, system goals, and students' roles in society. The contributors to this collection discuss selected writing purposes and forms characteristic of a specific national education system, describe students' agency as writers, and identify contextual factors--social, economic, linguistic, cultural--that shape institutional responses to writing development. In discussions that bookend these studies of different educational structures, the editors compare U.S. postsecondary writing practices and pedagogies with those in other national systems, and suggest new perspectives for cross-national study of learning/writing issues important to all educational systems. Given the worldwide increase in students entering higher education and the endless need for effective writing across disciplines and nations, the insights offered here and the call for further studies are especially welcome and timely.The following is the table of contents and introduction of Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education.. Ed. David Foster and David Russell. Urbana, IL: NCTE Press, 2002. 1-47.</p
D.R. Foster Building
No full textNeo-Classical Revival style building constructed for David Russell Foster (1882-1933); and wife, Anna Stockwell (1885-1951), native of Canton, PA. He was the owner of D.R. Foster Company, realtors, developers and insurance agents; and founder of Peoples's Building and Loan Association which occupied the building from 1913 to 1961. Location of Foster-Hill Realty Compnay from 1932 to 1993
Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care
Full text linkNearly 20% of young prison inmates spent part of their youth in foster care - the placement of abused or neglected children with substitute families. Little is known whether foster care placement reduces or increases the likelihood of criminal behavior. This paper uses the placement frequency of child protection investigators as an instrument to identify causal effects of foster care placement on adult arrest, conviction, and imprisonment rates. A unique dataset that links child abuse investigation data to criminal justice data in Illinois allows a comparison of adult crime outcomes across individuals who were investigated for abuse or neglect as children. Families are effectively randomized to child protection investigators through a rotational assignment process, and child characteristics are similar across investigators. Nevertheless, investigator placement frequencies are predictive of subsequent foster care placement, and the results suggest that school-aged children who are on the margin of placement have lower adult arrest rates when they remain at home.
David Foster Wallace, technologie a identita
No full textTato práce se zabývá analýzou toho, jak David Foster Wallace zachází s technologií a definuje tak své chápání jáství v Americe pozdního dvacátého a raného jednadvacátého století. Primární zaměření pak spočívá ve vývoji tohoto chápání mezi vydáním Wallacova stěžejního románu Infinite Jest (1996) a jeho posmrtně vydaném nedokončeném románu The Pale King (2011). Zároveň tato studie zváží Wallacovy myšlenky tak jak je vyjádřil skrz své mnohé povídky, literaturu faktu a kritické eseje, zvláště pak ‚E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction' (1993). Tato práce nejprve krátce umístí Wallace do kontextu soudobé akademické literatury za účelem zvážení stavu a rozsahu vznikajícího oboru "Wallace Studies". Následně se tato práce bude zabývat rozborem a rozvržením filozofických základů Wallaceova pojetí jáství a zdůrazní tak důležitost existenciálního myšlení a názoru o tvořeném spíše než přednastaveném individuálním já. Technologie, tak jak je představena ve Infinite Jest a The Pale King, je pak zkoumána ve vztahu k tomuto filozofickému chápání jáství, což z ní činí neustálou překážku pro existenciální sebepoznání, které je tolik zhodnocováno ve Wallaceově románech. Wallaceovův raný zájem o zábavní technologii jakožto udávajícího prvku soudobého vztahu k já se postupně v pozdějších dílech vyvine v obavu,...This thesis is concerned with an analysis of how David Foster Wallace's treatment of technology defines his understanding of the self in late 20th-century and early 21st-century America. With a primary focus on how this understanding evolved between the publication of his major novel Infinite Jest (1996) and his posthumously published unfinished novel The Pale King (2011), this thesis also takes into consideration Wallace's ideas as expressed through his many short stories, non-fiction works, and critical essays, most prominently "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (1993). This thesis first briefly places Wallace in the context of contemporary literary scholarship, evaluating the state and extent of the nascent field of Wallace Studies. It then proceeds to examine and map out the philosophical underpinnings to Wallace's conception of the self, emphasising the importance of existential thought and the notion that the self is to be created rather than pre-existing in the individual. Technology as it is presented in Infinite Jest and The Pale King is then examined in relation to this philosophical understanding of the self, proving itself consistently to be an impediment to the existential self-becoming valorised in the novels. Wallace's early interest in entertainment technology as...Ústav anglofonních literatur a kulturDepartment of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art
David Foster Wallace, Technology and the Self
No full textThis thesis is concerned with an analysis of how David Foster Wallace's treatment of technology defines his understanding of the self in late 20th-century and early 21st-century America. With a primary focus on how this understanding evolved between the publication of his major novel Infinite Jest (1996) and his posthumously published unfinished novel The Pale King (2011), this thesis also takes into consideration Wallace's ideas as expressed through his many short stories, non-fiction works, and critical essays, most prominently "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (1993). This thesis first briefly places Wallace in the context of contemporary literary scholarship, evaluating the state and extent of the nascent field of Wallace Studies. It then proceeds to examine and map out the philosophical underpinnings to Wallace's conception of the self, emphasising the importance of existential thought and the notion that the self is to be created rather than pre-existing in the individual. Technology as it is presented in Infinite Jest and The Pale King is then examined in relation to this philosophical understanding of the self, proving itself consistently to be an impediment to the existential self-becoming valorised in the novels. Wallace's early interest in entertainment technology as..
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No full textBook of poems about peace and war written by Mrs. David Scull Bispham. Bound in off-white wrappers. Front cover features title in black ink and an image of red cross. On inside rear cover is a dedication dated Nov. 18, 1915 (largely illegible), and the name of the author, Caroline Russell Bispham
Dressing up the author: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace branding their masculine authorial identities through fashion
No full textThis article explores the use of clothes and other accessories as markers of masculine authorial identity. Fashion and literature are contentious partners, with literature attempting to keep a firm distance from the popular trappings of the fashion world. However, writers have historically used fashion to create their identities beyond the printed word. This can be seen in examples such as Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain and the ways clothing items have become associated with their personae as men of letters. Contemporary writers are no different, yet many continue to exude ambivalence towards clothing having any effect on their images in the literary sphere. Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace are two examples of writers who downplay fashion’s role in their public images. Franzen and Wallace establish their positions at the forefront of American literature not only with their fiction and non-fiction works but also in the ways they adorn their bodies and present them within visual media. Nevertheless, both Franzen and Wallace perform as specific types of masculine authors through their fashion choices. Ultimately, they use fashion to brand their authorial identities in accordance with their literary output. Franzen’s and Wallace’s willing participation in the stylization of their images to meet the masculine standards of authorial identity reveals the preva-lence of gendered stereotypes regarding how authors should be represented within popular culture.Published versio
Cult: A Composite Novel
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David McCampbell top ace of U.S. naval aviation in World War II
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