It Skips a Generation: Spirituality in David Foster Wallace and James Joyce
Much scholarship recognizes David Foster Wallace’s break with postmodern literature, particularly his identification of John Barth as a “patriarch for my patricide,” and his role establishing a new movement in writing, sometimes identified as “New Sincerity.” But part of Wallace’s new ethos included...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 78-96 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wallace, David Foster 1962-2008
/ Joyce, James 1882-1941
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Postmodernism
B Spirituality B James Joyce B Modernism B David Foster Wallace |
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| Summary: | Much scholarship recognizes David Foster Wallace’s break with postmodern literature, particularly his identification of John Barth as a “patriarch for my patricide,” and his role establishing a new movement in writing, sometimes identified as “New Sincerity.” But part of Wallace’s new ethos included a return to modernist literature as a model for spirituality and ethics. This essay explores correspondences between Wallace and James Joyce. Across a variety of works, both authors present intellectually gifted but spiritually unmoored characters, balanced by characters who are less intellectually engaged, but more grounded thanks to a naïve, intuitive spirituality. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0004 |
