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Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19595-0 — The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace Edited by Ralph Clare Index More Information INDEX abjection, 88 “Deciderization 2007 – A Special addiction, 24, 41, 89, 97, 104, 128–129, 133, Report,” 118 136, 137, 165–168. See also Alcoholics “Big Red Son” (story), 115 Anonymous (AA) Bloom, Harold, 57 advertising, 22, 161 Anxiety of Influence, The, 52 affect, 142 Bob Newhart Show, The (TV show), 21 agency/free will, 51, 147, 148, 153 book reviews, 113–114, 193 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 41, 45, 129, boredom, 10, 142, 184, 216 138, 165–168, 170, 197, 199, 200 Boswell, Marshall, 57, 85, 137, 142, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming 145, 192 Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Both Flesh and Not, xvii, 4, 111 Wallace (Lipsky), xvii, xviii “Deciderization 2007 – A Special Anderson, Sherwood, 237 Report,” 118 Winesburg, Ohio, 222, 225–226 “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. “Another Pioneer” (story), 98, 104, 105–106, Open,” 117 149, 214 “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously anticipation, 51 Young,” 28, 29, 73 Araya, Jorge, 143 Brat Pack fiction, 28–29, 73. See also Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 197 “Fictional Futures and the attention, 3, 10, 143, 145–146 Conspicuously Young”; “Girl with Austin, Tracy, 117 Curious Hair” authenticity, 199 Brick, Martin, 192 authority, breakdown of, 182–183 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, xvi, xvii, “Authority and American Usage” (essay), 4, 41, 44, 51, 82–93, 132, 210 177–178, 212 “B.I. #2,” 89 autofiction, 59 “B.I. #20,” 90–91, 114, 162–164 “B.I. #28,” 89, 93 Baby Boomers, 20 “Datum Centurio,” 90 Balibar, Étienne, 175–176 “Depressed Person, The,” xvi, 51, Barth, John, 2 77, 90 Lost in the Funhouse, 78, 88, 236 “Devil Is a Busy Man, The,” 40, 77 “Lost in the Funhouse” (story), 88 “Forever Overhead,” 9, 87, 93, 183 Sot-Weed Factor, The, 129 “Octet,” 51, 56, 77, 91–93, 108, 160, Barthelme, Donald, 2 164–165, 183 belief, 11, 191 “Pop Quiz 6(A),” 90 distinction from faith, 192–193 supernatural themes, 149 The Best American Essays 2007 (Wallace, “Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Ed.), xvii Certain Borders,” 86 255 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19595-0 — The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace Edited by Ralph Clare Index More Information index Broom of the System, The, xv, 9, 21, 24, 28, cynicism, 10, 20, 22, 23, 26–27, 121, 42, 44, 50, 67–72, 79, 100, 128 163–164, 169, 178, 182, 192, 226 communication in, 67–69, 70–72, 76, 79 David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing”: regionalism of, 220 New Essays on the Novels (Boswell, supernatural in, 149 Marshall – Ed.), 142 Burn, Stephen J., 5, 142 David Foster Wallace Conference, 3 Decemberists, The (music), 49 Campbell, Joseph, 11, 206, “Deciderization 2007 – A Special Report” 214–217 (essay), 118, 222–223 Myths to Live By, 214 defamiliarization, 162 Carver, Raymond, 72 DeLillo, Don Cather, Willa, My Ántonia, 34 Libra, 129 Chamberlain, Lisa, Slackernomics, 20 White Noise, 42, 75 Chartier, Alain, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley” (essay), (poem), 145 116–117, 220, 231 Chase, Richard, 37 Derrida, Jacques, 68, 84 choice, 10 Díaz, Junot, 2 Christianity, 11 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Cioran, E.M., 9, 99, 107 The, 57 Tears and Saints, 97–98, 101, 103, Drown, 57 104, 105 This Is How You Lose Her, 58 Cixous, Hélène, 84–85, 90 disembodiment, 97, 100–102 “Laugh of the Medusa, The” (essay), Disney, Walt, 227 85 distraction, 199 Clare, Ralph, 142 Dos Passos, John, 237 Clarke, Bruce, 236 USA Trilogy, 240–241 Clarke, Jonathan Russell, 49 doubt, 121 Cohen, Samuel, 204 Doxiadis, Apostolos, Uncle Petros and After the End of History: American Fiction Goldbach’s Conjecture, 214 in the 1990s, 24 dreams, 86–88, 100–102 communication, 10, 12, 54, 67–69, 70–72, Dreyfus, Hubert, 191 74, 75, 76–78, 79 dualism, 147 community, 11, 45, 113, 134, 182, 183, 190, Dulk, Allard den, 137, 145 198–201 connection, 143 “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. consciousness, 97–100, 106–109, 142 Fiction” (essay), xvi, 3, 19, 21, 28, 42, 73, Consider the Lobster, xvi, xvii, 3, 9, 111 75, 111, 117, 122, 160, 161 “Authority and American Usage,” 112, Eagleton, Terry, 190 120, 177–178, 212 economics, 7, 11, 20, 175–176 “Big Red Son,” 115 écriture feminine, 84 “Consider the Lobster,” 119, 121 Egan, Jennifer, 2 “Host,” 119, 121, 122, 179–180 Visit from the Goon Squad, A, 56, 59–60 service essays, 118 Eggers, Dave, 2 “Up, Simba: Seven Days on the Trail of an Ellis, Brett Easton, 73 Anticandidate,” xvi, 112, 119, 121, Less Than Zero, 28 178–179, 180 Ellwood, Robert, 215 “Consider the Lobster” (essay), 119, 121 embodiment, 146–147 conversion, 11 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Nature, 35–36 Coupland, Douglas, 20 empathy, 5, 11, 41, 165, 179, 190, 194, 198 creative writing, 28–30, 34, 72 encyclopedic narratives/novel, 8, 10, 43–44, criticism, literary, 4, 127, 136, 143, 146 129, 130, 136, 239–240 cybernetic thought, 236 End of History, 24 256 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19595-0 — The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace Edited by Ralph Clare Index More Information index End of the Tour, The (film), xviii, 49 Gaddis, William, 237 entertainment, 24, 30, 38–39 JR, 240 addiction to, 128 Recognitions, The, 129 disposable, 22 games, 29, 36, 68, 74–75, 89, 117–118, 134 distraction through, 199 Gass, William, Omensetter’s Luck, 73 “failed,” 136–138 gender themes, 9, 146–147 lethal, 181, 183 Generation X, 3, 8 passive, 128, 134, 136 defining, 20–21 solipsism and, 200 literary Brat Pack (Conspicuously Young), Equaliberty, 175 28–29 Ercolino, Stefano, 239–240 political ambivalence of, 25–27 ethnicity, 205, 211, 213, 215–216, 227 “Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Eugenides, Jeffrey, 2 Much Away from It All” (essay), 34, Marriage Plot, The, 56, 57 114–115, 120, 209, 214, 220 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story ghosts/haunting, 12–13, 148–151 (Max), 4, 26, 29, 58, 67, 116, 191, Giles, Paul, 35, 113, 221 193, 200 Girl with Curious Hair, xv, 9, 21, 67, Everything and More, xvii, 111, 144 72–79 Ex Machina (film), 134 “Everything Is Green,” 72 existentialism, 33–40, 42 “Girl with Curious Hair,” 97, 176 experimental literature, 59, 132, 160, 240 “Here and There,” xv, 77, 128 “Little Expressionless Animals,” 73, faith, 191, 192, 193–194, 197, 198. See also 74–75, 128 spirituality “Luckily the Account Representative Knew Family Ties (TV show), 20 CPR,” 77 Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free “Lyndon,” 76–77, 177 Will, xvii, 4 “My Appearance,” 73, 74, 75–76, 128 Federer, Roger, 117 “Say Never,” 73 feminism, 9, 82–93 supernatural in, 149 French feminism, 84–85, 86, 88, 90 “Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Way,” 69, 72, 74, 77–79, 143, Young” (essay), 28, 29, 73 161, 227 film Glossary, The, 49 Joke, The (James Incandenza), 134 “Good Old Neon” (story), xvi, 9, 12, Medusa v. the Odalisque, The (James 106–109, 133, 149, 160 Incandenza), 134 Green, Karen, xvi, xvii Pre-nuptial (James Incandenza), 129 Bough Down, 7 Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 52 Groenland, Tim, 143 Foucault, Michel, 220 Gusterson, Hugh, 227 Frank, Joseph, 2, 193 Franzen, Jonathan, 49, 50, 54–55, hagiography, 105 116 Harper’s magazine Corrections, The, xvi, 222 “Shipping Out,” 111 Freedom, 55, 56–57 “Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes,” Strong Motion, 23 116–117 Twenty-Seventh City, The, 23, 42 “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and free will/agency, 51, 147, 148, 153 the Wars over Usage,” 112 Freud, Sigmund, 86, 90 “Ticket to the Fair,” 111, 114–115. See also Totem and Taboo, 182 “Getting Away from Already Being Friends (TV show), 21 Pretty Much Away from It All” Fukuyama, Francis, End of History and the Harris, Charles B., 117, 221 Last Man, The, 24–25 Harry Ransom Center, xvii, 5, 6, 214, 221 “Future of Fiction, The” (essay), 23 haunting. See ghosts/haunting 257 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-19595-0 — The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace Edited by Ralph Clare Index More Information index Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 39 Marathe, 176, 181 “Minister’s Black Veil, The” (story), 37 Mario Incandenza, 128, 200, 205 Scarlet Letter, The, 38 mystery in, 37–38 Hayes-Brady, Clare, 7, 51, 83, 85, 91, 204 Orin Incandenza, 132, 168, 183 Hayles, Katherine, 181, 199 political/social upheaval, 176 Heartland Myth, 11, 222, 224, 228–230 politics in, 180–184 Hemingway, Ernest, “Clean, Well-Lighted portrayals of race in, 204–205, 210–211, Place, A” (story), 34 212, 213, 215 Her (film), 134 realism in, 131–133 “Here and There” (story), xv, 77, 128 Remy Marathe, 128 Hering, David, 6, 9, 58 similarities with The Broom of the David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, System, 71 7, 149 Steeply, 176, 181–182 heroism, 145–146, 151–154 as through line, 10 history, 24, 26, 59, 76–77, 184, 221 writing style in, 43 Hoberek, Andrew, 57–58, 132 Infinite Summer, xvii, 4, 49 Holland, Mary, 88 Infinite Winter, 4, 49 “Host” (essay), 119, 121, 122, 179–180 intentional fallacy, 2 Howling Fantods (website), 4 International David Foster Wallace Society, 3 Hungerford, Amy, 50 Internet, 161 Postmodern Belief, 192 Irigaray, Luce, 84–85, 90 irony, 10, 77, 127, 182 ideology, 177 at AA meetings, 165–166, 167 images, 40, 45, 76, 118, 127, 134, 144, 161, pervasiveness of, 128 178, 180, 182, 220, 222, 228 of pop-culture obsession, 22–23 “Incarcerations of Burned Children” (story), postmodern, 39, 143, 161 101–102, 103, 104 in television, 74 Inception
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