Thoreau's country : journey through a transformed landscape by Foster, David R., 1954-

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Postmodern American fiction : a Norton anthology

Table of Contents: “…Major major major major) / Joseph Heller (b. 1923) -- Lyndon / David Foster Wallace (b. 1962). -- The turn of the screw / Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) -- Great expectations (I recall my childhood) / Kathy Acker (b. 1948) -- Chimera (Dunyazadiad) / John Barth (b. 1930) -- City of glass (Chapter 1) / Paul Auster (b. 1947) -- From Paul Auster's City of glass / Paul Karasisk (b. 1956) and David Mazzucchelli (b. 1960) -- Tripmaster monkey : his fake book (From Trippers and askers) / Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) -- Neveryóna (1. …”


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Think tank : forty neuroscientists explore the biological roots of human experience

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The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction

Table of Contents: “…. / Harrison Bergeron -- Alice Walker / Everyday Use -- David Foster Wallace / Everything Is Green -- Eudora Welty / A Worn Path -- Edith Wharton / The Other Two -- John Edgar Wideman / newborn thrown in trash and dies -- William Carlos Williams / The Use of Force -- Tobias Wolff / Bullet in the Brain -- Tobias Wollf / Say Yes -- Virginia Woolf / Kew Gardens -- Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man -- Part Two: Commentaries -- Part Three: Casebooks.…”


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Cognitive grammar in literature

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion -- Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy' -- 1. …”
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The story and its writer : an introduction to short fiction

Table of Contents: “…/ Joyce Carol Oates -- Things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Everything that rises must converge; Good country people; Good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor -- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen -- Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer -- Conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Cask of Amontillado; Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- He / Katherine Anne Porter -- Distant view of a minaret / Alifa Rifaat -- Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- A & P / John Updike -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Incarnations of burned children / David Foster Wallace -- Worn path / Eudora Welty -- Say yes / Tobias Wolf -- Man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Commentaries: Image of Africa: Conrad's ''Heart of darkness'' / Chinua Achebe -- Superman and me / Sherman Alexie -- Form, not plot, in the short story / Sherwood Anderson -- Reading blind / Margaret Atwood -- Autobiographical notes / James Baldwin -- Author's not / Russell Banks -- Stories of Katherine Mansfield / Willa Cather -- Translating Kafka / Ann Charters -- Why I write short stories / John Cheever -- Technique in writing the short story / Anton Chekhov -- How I stumbled upon Maupassant / Kate Chopin -- On the short story and its environs / Julio Cortázar -- Sinking of the commodore / Stephen Crane -- Influence of folklore on ''Battle royal'' / Ralph Ellison -- Meaning of ''Rose for Emily'' / William Faulkner -- Feminist reading of Gilman's ''Yellow wallpaper'' / Sandra M. …”


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AI catalyst conference : building commercially successful LLM applications.

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The National interests of the United States in foreign policy : seven discussions at the Wilson Center, December, 1980, February 1981

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, John O'Hara, Nathanael West, William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace -- 36. Enchantment and Disenchantment: Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn Rand, Radclyffe Hall, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Elizabeth Taylor, Muriel Spark, Gabriel Josipovici, Christine Brooke-Rose, B. …”


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