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skepticism, romanticism, and the Wallace nexus
"Fictions of Proximity explores the nexus of writers around David Foster Wallace who shaped a trend in literature the study calls the 'post-positivist novel.' It provides new readings of these writers, both of their canonical and lesser-known works, and situates them with respect to prominent figures in contemporary post-positivist philosophy"--
Varieties of post-positivism : pragmatism and romanticism -- "The powerful, dual-functioning part" : romantic subjectivity in David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's Signifying rappers -- 'Looking' in 'horror' or 'ecstasy' : romantic desire in David Markson's Wittgenstein's mistress -- Brechtian rhetoric and Bret Easton Ellis's American psycho -- Aporia in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest -- "The great unequivocal international gestures" : Benjaminian Gestus in Zadie Smith's The autograph man -- Epilogue : breathing with Wallace.