RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Literature beyond Solipsism: Self- Consciousness, Empathy and the Other in the Short Fiction of David Foster Wallace
A1 López Sande, Sergio
K1 David Foster Wallace
K1 Short Story
K1 Subjectivity
K1 Postmodernism
K1 Epiphany
AB Drawing on existing contributions to the growing field of David Foster Wallace studies, thisdissertation seeks to specifically examine the generic idiosyncrasy of Wallace's short fictionproduction. This exercise is carried out in a twofold manner: on the one hand, via the study ofthe interrelation of Wallace's literature with the problems of the notion of selfhood followingthe wake of postmodernism; and, on the other, by attesting to how this crisis is made manifestin his tales through a reappropriation of the modernist epiphany. The conflation of these twoproblems considered, this study proposes a tripartite approach to the postmodernist moment ofbeing, a distinction paving the way for new readings of the defining themes of Wallace's shortfiction.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30883
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30883
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 4 may 2026