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Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. New Journalism
3. First Essay: “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley”
3.1. Milieu, Mathematics, Material Body
3.2. Observations on Wallace`s Style
4. Second Essay: “How Tracy Austin Broke my Heart”
4.1. Importance of the Essay Title
4.2. Narrator Perspective and Involving Oneself to Involve the Reader
4.3. Zooming in on the Missing Element and Zooming out from Book Review to Genre Bashing
4.4. The Paradox of High-Level Athletic Aesthetics
4.5. Conclusion
5. Third Essay: "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain stuff about Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness."
5.1. Narrator Position and Style
5.2. Function of the Essay Title
5.3. Untangling the Entangled
5.4. Who is the Subject? Shifting Agencies; and Conclusion
6. Fourth Essay: "Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open"
6.1. Function of the Essay Title
6.2. Some Notes on Style
6.3. Capitalisation of the Game & Critique of Capitalism
7. Fifth Essay: “Both Flesh and Not”
7.1. Flesh and Light. Sublime Physicality
7.2. Chapter Conclusion
8. Conclusion
9. Epilogue
10. Bibliography
- Quote paper
- Christoph Schrank (Author), 2017, Ontological Tennis. A Close Reading of David Foster Wallace's Tennis Essays, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/369564
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