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Diagnosing David Foster Wallace, Amanda Redinger
Diagnosing David Foster Wallace, Amanda Redinger
Senior Honors Projects
David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest is usually touted by its fans as being a postpostmodern opus of unparalleled genius; this reaction is inconvenient for me insomuch as I don’t actually agree. More specifically, I have difficulty with the way Infinite Jest’s thematic content is framed by the techniques used to express it, despite the fact that Wallace’s verbal acrobatics are the stuff of legend. This paper argues that the style in which Infinite Jest is written consistently undermines the thematic considerations being simultaneously addressed, creating a dissonance that interferes with the reader’s ability to engage the novel on the …
A Foray Into Food Writing: A Philosophical Approach To Contemporary Food Movements, Rebecca Long
A Foray Into Food Writing: A Philosophical Approach To Contemporary Food Movements, Rebecca Long
Senior Honors Projects
For my Honors Project I chose to explore one of my passions, food writing. To accomplish this I did extensive research into several food movements with which I was previously unfamiliar. On the basis of this research I generated short papers that became appendices to my final product. The research grounded subsequent journalistic pieces, which explore intriguing aspects of these food movements but in a prose style and at a scale more appropriate to a general readership.