Textbooks:
- D. Foster Wallace, Oblivion, Little, Brown and Company
- A. Ardovino, D. den Dulk, P. Masiero (eds.), David Foster Wallace between Philosophy and Literature, Manchester University Press, or (alternatively): G. Agamben, The Fire and the Tale, Stanford University Press

Suggested reading and resources:
A.
- M. Boswell, Understanding David Foster Wallace, The University of South Carolina Press
- M. Boswell, S.J. Burn (eds.), A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies, Palgrave Macmillan
- R. Clare (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace, Cambridge University Press
- D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, Viking
- D.T. Max, Ogni storia d’amore è una storia di fantasmi. Vita di David Foster Wallace, Einaudi
B.
- K. Bolger, S. Korb (eds.), Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy, Bloomsbury
- M. Boswell (ed.), David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing”: New Essays on the Novel, Bloomsbury
- M. Boswell, The Wallace Effect. David Foster Wallace and Contemporary Literary Imagination, Bloomsbury
- S.M. Cahn, M. Eckert (eds.), Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace, Columbia University Press
- G. Carlisle, “Good Old Neon” in Id., Nature’s Nightmare. Analyzing David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion, Sideshow Media Group Press
- A. Den Dulk, Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature, Bloomsbury
- C. Hayes-Brady, The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace. Language, Identity and Resistance, Bloomsbury
- D. Hering, David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, Bloomsbury, London – New York 2016.
- A.S. Miller, The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction (New Directions in Religion and Literature), Bloomsbury
- B. Pire, P.-L. Patoine (eds.), David Foster Wallace. Presences of the Other, Sussex Academic Press
- J. Redgate, Wallace and I. Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction, Routledge
- C. Scarlato, Attraverso il corpo. Filosofia e letteratura in David Foster Wallace, Mimesis
- J. Severs, David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: Fiction of Value, Columbia University Press
- P. Sloane, David Foster Wallace and the Body, Routledge
- L. Thompson, Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature, Bloomsbury
C.
- C. Barbero, Filosofia della letteratura, Carocci
- R. Barthes, Il brusio della lingua, Einaudi
- S. Cavell, La riscoperta dell’ordinario, Carocci
- J. Derrida, La scrittura e la differenza, Jaca Book
- J. Derrida, Passioni. L'offerta obliqua, Jaca Book
- J. Derrida, Acts of Literature, Routledge
- M. Foucault, Scritti letterari, Feltrinelli
- M. Foucault, La grande straniera. A proposito di letteratura, Cronopio
- M. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Routledge
- M. Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature, University of Minnesota Press
- G. Genette, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, Cornell University Press
- K. Hamburger, La logica della letteratura, Pendragon
- W. Iser, The Act of Reading, ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press
- E. John, D. McIver Lopes (eds.), Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings: An Anthology, Blackwell
- P. Lamarque, The Philosophy of Literature, Blackwell
- T. Moi, Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell,‎ University of Chicago Press
- M. Piazza, Alle frontiere tra filosofia e letteratura, Guerini
- J.-M. Rabaté (ed.), After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press
- R. Rorty, La filosofia dopo la filosofia, Laterza
- R. Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press
- F.K. Stanzel, A Theory of Narrative, Cambridge University Press
- L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell