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Watching As The World Turns: Performance, Everyday Life, and the Self in the Novels of David Foster Wallace
Get PDFThis thesis examines manifestations of performance in the novels of David
Foster Wallace. It argues that as Wallace engages with the theme of
performance he concurrently addresses the related topics of everyday life and the self. Taking key theories of performance from the discipline of
performance studies and applying these to an analysis of Wallace’s novels, this thesis demonstrates how the views of everyday life and the self presented by Wallace are predicated on performance and uncertainty. It first compares Wallace’s view of the everyday with theories put forward by Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord. Wallace’s view of the self is then outlined, primarily through close readings of how choice, boredom, rituals, and masks are presented in Wallace’s novels, alongside comparisons of his work with two further theorists of the everyday, Raoul Vaneigem and Erving Goffman. The thesis concludes by examining how Wallace presents audiences within his novels, suggesting that he often uses performance situations to articulate his thoughts on the relationship between the self and the other, before calling for further interdisciplinary research into Wallace’s writing
Autobiography of Daniel S. Pendleton, Utah pioneer
No full textTypescript of n autobiographical sketch by Daniel Stapley Pendleton, who described his family\u27s journey across the plains to Utah in 1851, and his experience in the pioneers\u27 wars with Utah Indians. Copy of sketch loaned by Cedar City Daughters of the Utah Pioneers to Wallace H. Adair to be copied for the Federal Writers\u27 W.P.A. Ogden, Utah, August 10, 193
2003 The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman
No full textText document The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurma
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
Daniel J. Boorstin
No full textPhotograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Daniel J. Boorstin, author and keynote speaker.
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Daniel W. Kempner to Helman J. Lehman discussing a letter sent by Lehman to Kempner's office, World War II, and Camp Wallace in Galveston
Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin (S2_B32_F3_33)
No full textDr. Daniel J. Boorstin-historian, author and Director of the National Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution. He was the guest speaker at Bierce Library's Dedication Ceremony
Ilħna maħnuqa
No full textĠabra ta’ poeżiji u proża li tinkludi: Il-progress ta’ J. P. Vassallo – Ħajtek żagħżugħ ta’ Wallace Ph. Gulia – “Is-sur ta’ tfuliti” ta’ Daniel Micallef – Jum xitwi ta’ Alfred Massa – L-ilħna maħnuqa ta’ Oliver Friggieri.peer-reviewe
The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
No full textPhDThe thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological conception of the 'play' of art, an interactive existence overlooked by Kant. Through the ‘play’ of Stevens’ poems the reading audience are implicated in their reduction to being. The origin of this conception leads Gadamer back to Parmenides who Stevens had read. I argue that Stevens’ poetry ‘plays’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of how the language and form of Stevens’ poems attempt to reduce mind and world to concepts that parallel Parmenides’ poetic sense of being, and Heraclitus’ notion of becoming, the thesis uncovers the ground in which Stevens attempts a reconnection with the ‘thing-in-itself’. It is through the experience of reconnecting to an ontological centre, which his poetry presents as the human project, that Stevens’ poetry also presents itself as a means of replacing religion.From here we turn to Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida for an exposition of how such a reduction reduces the ‘Other’ to ‘otherness’ and their worry that this reduction legitimates violence within the thought of Martin Heidegger and Parmenides. From this I make a case for how such reductions are connected to what I refer to as 'the play of violence' in Stevens' poetry, and to refer this violence back to the mythology Stevens' poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics’
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