He's damn good' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'One of the best books about addiction and recovery to appear in recent memory' Sunday Times Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for ...
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748130985
Category: Fiction
Page: 1104
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Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art Paul Barolsky. Infinite Jest : Wit and
Humor in Italian Renaissance Art THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES
Infinite Jest Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art Let's.
Author: Paul Barolsky
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press
ISBN:
Category: Art
Page: 224
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The book's core thematic preoccupations led IS participants to discuss addiction
and suicide at length, not only in relation to Infinite Jest and its author's biography
, but also in their own lives. In a week four post on the topic of suicide, one of the
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Author: Simone Murray
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421426099
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 256
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... it's the case that readers of Gravity's Rainbow are, on average, much more
likely to enjoy Infinite Jest than The Shining; conversely, fans of The Shining tend
to find both Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest a bit obtuse and overwrought.
Author: Michael Kearns
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190948205
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 232
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The author shows in how far the reader of 'Infinite Jest' has to get involved in this work of play, how it affects the way they read the book, and how the idiosyncratic reading experience finally becomes an integral part of the whole book ...
Author: Rainer Holl
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN: 3954890577
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 54
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Infinite Jest [1996] The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
Infinite Jest Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual
person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his
life: i.e., ...
Author: John Bartlett
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 031625018X
Category: Reference
Page: 1504
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The humorist , whose hoax upon a brother reporter produced this incident , was
well known in the literary circles , and a fellow of infinite jest : but though he was
himself a person of much wit and pointed satire , he feared foils more than
Supple ...
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On the other hand, the novel, I argue, not only posits the tyranny of this newfound perverse freedom in Western culture, but also laments the backlash of overt sincerity that is equally oppressive, represented by the AA parts of the novel.
Author: Alexander Charles Ruhsenberger
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Category: Irony
Page: 49
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Of credit infinite , highly beloved , Second to none that lives here in the city Com .
of Errors , v . 1 . It is past the infinite of thought . ... I knew him , Horatio : a fellow of
infinite jest , of most excellent fancy . . . . . . . v . In nature ' s infinite book of ...
Author: John Bartlett
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Page: 1034
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I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest. I is the subject of knew, and him is the
object ; fellow is in apposition with him, and jest is the object of the preposition of.
Yorick and Horatio are neither subjects of verbs nor objects of verbs or ...
Author: Jonathan Badgley
Publisher:
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Category: English language
Page: 384
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Infinite Jest in fact alludes to a specific piece of art that Ngai analyzes as a key
example of the interesting: Ed Ruscha's Various Small Fires and Milk (1964); see
Ngai, Our Aesthetic Categories, 147–8. Jest's James O. Incandenza makes a film
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Author: Philip Sayers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501367684
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 224
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Now we submit that there is no contrast in this , but the reverse ; or , in other
words , that to have infinite jest on the lips , especially if the jest be of the stale or
farfetched kind , is no evidence of profundity , but the coutrary : hence the
comparison ...
Author: Edward Isidore Sears
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Now we submit that there is no contrast in this , but the reverse ; or , in other
words , that to have infinite jest on the lips , especially if the jest be of the stale or
farfetched kind , is no evidence of profundity , but the coutrary : hence the
comparison ...
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