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‘The Realer, More Enduring and Sentimental Part of Him’: David Foster Wallace’s Personal Library and Marginalia “他更真实、更持久、更感性的部分”:大卫·福斯特·华莱士的个人图书馆和旁注

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.142

J. Roache

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引用次数: 4

“I Kept Saying Her Name”: Naming, Labels and Power in the Early Writing of David Foster Wallace “我一直在说她的名字”：大卫·福斯特·华莱士早期写作中的命名、标签和力量

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.181

Clare Hayes-Brady

引用次数: 1

Reading the Ghost in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction 解读大卫·福斯特·华莱士小说中的幽灵

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.208

David Hering

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Conjuring David Foster Wallace’s Ghost: Prosopopeia, Whitmanian Intimacy and the Queer Potential of Infinite Jest and The Pale King 招魂大卫·福斯特·华莱士的鬼魂：普罗索佩亚、惠特曼式的亲密关系与《无尽的小丑》和《苍白的国王》的更大潜力

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.139

Vincent Haddad

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引用次数: 2

Review of Freedom and the Self: Essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace, Edited by Cahn, S. M. and Eckert, M., New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 《自由与自我评论：大卫·福斯特·华莱士哲学随笔》，卡恩、埃克特主编，纽约：哥伦比亚大学出版社，2015年

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.211

S. Taylor

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‘They All Sound Like David Foster Wallace’: Syntax and Narrative in Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion and The Pale King “他们听起来都像大卫·福斯特·华莱士”：《无限的玩笑》中的句法和叙事，《隐藏的男人》、《遗忘》和《苍白的国王》的简短采访

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.207

S. Bourcier

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引用次数: 4

Review of The End of the Tour, 2015. [Film] Directed by James Ponsoldt. USA: A24 《巡回演唱会的终结》评论，2015年。[电影]詹姆斯·庞索尔特执导。美国：24

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.212

M. Darling

引用次数: 0

Introduction – Supposedly Fun Things: A David Foster Wallace Special Issue 简介-看似有趣的事情：大卫·福斯特-华莱士特刊

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.214

Edward Jackson, Xavier Marcó del Pont, T. Venezia

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Review of Hayes-Brady, C, 2016. The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, Resistance. London: Bloomsbury 海耶斯-布雷迪，C, 2016。《大卫·福斯特·华莱士不可言说的失败:语言、身份、反抗》伦敦:布卢姆斯伯里

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.201

Erin K. Reilly