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what are some good academic paper topics for Infinite Jest (1996)?

>> No.20015748

>>20015575
Endless Keks: a study in shoving sweaty bandanas up whore-asses

>> No.20015753

>>20015748
Honest question, do you actually find that to be funny and clever?

>> No.20015759

>>20015753
honesty is an impossible mode of discourse

>> No.20015823

>>20015575
i've always thought wallace's choice to use "infinite jest" as the title(s) relates to the sort of recursive nature of sincerity becoming irony becoming sincerity becoming... etc., which is a major theme in his work. maybe there's something there you can use.

>> No.20015846

>>20015823
to add on to what i said here i guess an analysis of recursive themes or recursion-as-a-theme in infinite jest or wallace's work as a whole would be workable. there is a transformative and cyclical nature to a lot of the abstract ideas in his work, all of which seem inscrutable or paradoxical as a human issue. joy becoming pain becoming joy becoming..., comedy becoming tragedy becoming comedy becoming..., and so on and so forth.

a good example of this is in the speech wallace wrote "Laughing with Kafka", where he says that at the heart of Kafka's work there exists a comedy that "is also tragedy, and this tragedy also always an immense and reverent joy", showing what i mean about the infinite interchangeability of these different human concepts

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>>20015846
>to add on to what i said here i guess an analysis of recursive themes or recursion-as-a-theme in infinite jest or wallace's work as a whole would be workable. there is a transformative and cyclical nature to a lot of the abstract ideas in his work, all of which seem inscrutable or paradoxical as a human issue. joy becoming pain becoming joy becoming..., comedy becoming tragedy becoming comedy becoming..., and so on and so forth.
>a good example of this is in the speech wallace wrote "Laughing with Kafka", where he says that at the heart of Kafka's work there exists a comedy that "is also tragedy, and this tragedy also always an immense and reverent joy", showing what i mean about the infinite interchangeability of these different human concepts

>> No.20015993

>>20015851
nigger

>> No.20016155

>>20015823
Its a Hamlet reference dude

>> No.20016204

>>20016155
No. It's a Jorick reference