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- Title
"LISTEN": WALLACE'S SHORT STORY ENDINGS AND THE ART OF FALLING SILENT.
- Authors
Severs, Jeffrey
- Abstract
The article focuses on the endings of American novelist, David Foster Wallace's short stories, particularly the way they arrest the reader with their brevity and directness. It explores how these endings often function as invitations or imperatives to act, and how they are designed to make readers more active. It also examines the formal qualities of Wallace's endings, noting their recurrence of threes and their reliance on language's spell-casting power.
- Subjects
WALLACE, David Foster, 1962-2008; AMERICAN novelists; ENGLISH short stories; ENDINGS (Literature)
- Publication
Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, 2019, Vol 1, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
2576-9995
- Publication type
Article