Ticket to the Fair
E1009698
"Ticket to the Fair" is David Foster Wallace’s humorous, hyper-detailed essay about attending the Illinois State Fair, later collected in his book *A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again*.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ticket to the Fair canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
essay
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nonfiction work ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
NERFINISHED
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Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectedIn | A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublishedIn | Harper's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
humorous essay
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literary journalism ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryDevice |
detailed observation
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digression ⓘ footnotes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | David Foster Wallace bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationType | magazine article ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Little, Brown and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Illinois State Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
first-person narrative
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hyper-detailed description ⓘ |
| subject |
American leisure activities
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mass entertainment ⓘ state fairs ⓘ |
| theme |
American popular culture
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Midwestern culture ⓘ consumerism ⓘ spectacle and entertainment ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | late 20th century ⓘ |
| tone |
humorous
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ironic ⓘ |
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