Seeming sincere : ironic implications on sincerity and authenticity in David Foster Wallace's "host" and the broom of the system

• Main Author: Tang, Aaron Wei Yao
• Other Authors: Christopher Peter Trigg
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66956
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Critics have lauded David Foster Wallace as a writer whose work represents a movement beyond postmodernism. The one quality of Wallace's work that critics have focused on is the sincerity of his writing. But what does writing sincerely entail? Drawing on Lionel Trilling's book on sincerity...