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  • David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

    Creator:
    Randlemon, Daniel E.
    Abstract:
    Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
    Full Text:
    manifesto of sincerity, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction,” as well as excerpts from various