Chapter 1 “We’ve been inside what we wanted all along”: David Foster Wallace’s Immanent Structures

In: Literature and the Encounter with Immanence
Author:
Jeffrey Severs
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8–29
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004311930_003

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Abstract:This essay examines immanence in the work of postmodern novelist David Foster Wallace, including parts of The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, “The Suffering Channel,” and The Pale King. Drawing on comparisons to Franz Kafka, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and others, the essay exposes Wallace’s minute attention to narrative structures, paradoxical door images, and prefixes (in-, en-, ex-) that suggest there can be no flight or escape from the self or language.

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Series:  Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 298 and  Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, Volume: 298
Cover Literature and the Encounter with Immanence
E-Book ISBN:
9789004311930
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
24 May 2017

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