Intertextuality in David Foster Wallace's Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way and John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature grade: 13 Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien) language: English abstract: This paper provides an analysis of David Foster Wallace's early novella Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1989) and John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse' (1967) Westward and Funhouse in light of theories of intertextuality and literary influence.