Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_7012
dc.title	Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis
dc.contributor.author	Vermeulen Timotheus
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2021/1/wallace-after-postmodernism-again-metamodernism-to/
dc.description.abstract	David Foster Wallace’s writing has come to be synonymous with post-postmodernism. Strategies that are often singled out in this respect include the return to epic forms of storytelling; a post-ironic attitude towards its subject matter; a concern with empathy and affective generosity; and an ambiguous but reinvigorated relationship of language to ‘reality’. In this essay I consider some of these in the context of visual art. The aim is less to map one onto another, detailing how much they have in common, than it is to tease out some of the differences between them so as to pinpoint Wallace’s position on post-postmodernism’s cognitive map across the disciplines.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 8 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2022-03-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-11-26
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-10-18
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Art
dc.subject	David Foster Wallace
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Metamodernism
dc.subject	Post-irony
dc.subject	Tennis

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Timotheus Vermeulen University of Oslo

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David Foster Wallace’s writing has come to be synonymous with post-postmodernism. Strategies that are often singled out in this respect include the return to epic forms of storytelling; a post-ironic attitude towards its subject matter; a concern with empathy and affective generosity; and an ambiguous but reinvigorated relationship of language to ‘reality’. In this essay I consider some of these in the context of visual art. The aim is less to map one onto another, detailing how much they have in common, than it is to tease out some of the differences between them so as to pinpoint Wallace’s position on post-postmodernism’s cognitive map across the disciplines.

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March 16, 2022

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Nov. 26, 2021

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Oct. 18, 2021

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Keywords: David Foster Wallace • Tennis • Metamodernism • Art • Post-irony • Identity

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