Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature

Introduction: David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature - Allard den Dulk, Pia Masiero and Adriano Ardovino

Part I: General perspectives
1 Absorbing art: the Hegelian project of Infinite Jest - Adam Kelly
2 Stages, Socrates, and the performer stripped bare: David Foster Wallace as philosopher-dramatist - Jeffrey Severs
3 'A matter of perspective': 'Good Old Neon' between literature and philosophy - Adriano Ardovino and Pia Masiero
4 The influence of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism on David Foster Wallace - Paolo Pitari

Part II: Consciousness, self and others
5 'What all she'd so painfully learned said about her': a comparative reading of David Foster Wallace's 'The Depressed Person' and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground - Allard den Dulk
6 Infinite Jest's 'trinity of you and I into we': Wallace's 'click' between Joyce's literary consubstantiality and Wittgenstein's family resemblance - Dominik Steinhilber
7 Solipsism, loneliness, alienation: David Foster Wallace as interpreter of Wittgenstein - Guido Baggio
8 'This is just my opinion': modelling a public sphere in The Pale King - Daniel South
9 Pioneers of consciousness: hypothesis for a diptych - Lorenzo Marchese
10 The problem of other minds in 'Good Old Neon' - Matt Prout

Part III: Embodiment, gender and sexuality
11 'I am in here': David Foster Wallace and the body as object - Clare Hayes-Brady
12 'The interstices of her sense of something': David Foster Wallace, the quest for affect, and the future of gendered interactions - Mara Mattoscio
13 'You are loved': race, love, and language in early Wallace - Lola Boorman
14 'They remain just bodies': on pornography in David Foster Wallace (1989-2006) - Chiara Scarlato
15 'Something staring back at you': an anamorphic reading of Infinite Jest - Angelo Maria Grossi

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