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Cargando... David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)por Stephen J. Burn
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  ) chrisvia | Apr 29, 2021 |   ) Adammmmm | Sep 10, 2019 |  )1  Sandydog1 | Feb 23, 2013 | )1 librarianbryan | Apr 20, 2012 | Excellent summation of themes and plot - helped me make connections I missed the first time through INFINITE JEST on my own - Now I look forward to rereading the novel! "...one of the obsessive themes of INFINITE JEST: the search for an adequate understanding of the self. This melancholy exploration, which is largely (but not entirely) focused on Hal, partly explains why Wallace chose HAMLET as one of the templates for his novel. HAMLET begins with the question 'who's there?,' and if Shakespeare's play answers this with an exemplary excavation of the consciousness of Renaissance man, then INFINITE JEST attempts a millennial update, cataloging the twentieth century's endless efforts to understand itself." pg. 39 ".... While each of the characters act individually in their localized environment, their individual actions have multiple connections to lives and narratives beyond their comprehension. And their apparently random interactions tend to form large-scale patterns (and particularly circular patterns) in the novel. This movement from lower-level action to higher-level pattern is characteristic of emergent networks. As Steven Johnson, in his study EMERGENCE (2001), summarizes, an emergent system involves 'multiple agents dynamically interacting in multiple ways, following local rules and oblivious to higher-level instructions' with these interactions resulting 'in some kind of discernible macrobehavior' (p.19). In many ways this seems an apt description of INFINITE JEST's circular ordering, and it is not coincidental that this arrangement resembles the interconnected 'systems inside systems' of natural ecologies (p. 67)." pg. 54 Mary_Overton | Jun 24, 2011 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a three-stage rocket to the future, a work equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life, while Time Magazine included Infinite Jest on its list of 100 Greatest Novels published between 1923-2006. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide was the first book to be published on the novel and is a key reference for those who wish to explore further. Infinite Jest has become an exemplar for difficulty in contemporary Fictionits 1,079 pages full of verbal invention, oblique narration, and a scattered, nonlinear, chronology. In this comprehensively revised second edition, Burn maps Wallaces influence on contemporary American fiction, outlines Wallaces poetics, and provides a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas, before surveying Wallaces post-Infinite Jest output, including The Pale King."--Ebook Library Public metadata view summary. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Elegant Complexity and Other Infinite Jest Reading Aids
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