The Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace / edited by Ralph Clare (Boise State University).
Clare, Ralph, 1975- editor.
2018
PS3573.A425635 Z58 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace / edited by Ralph Clare (Boise State University).
ISBN
9781107195950 (hardcover)
1107195950 (hardcover)
9781108451772 (paperback)
1108451772 (paperback)
9781108679503 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS3573.A425635 Z58 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
Best known for his masterpiece 'Infinite Jest', David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace's desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and restorative function of literature resulted in works that appeal as much to a reader's intellect as they do emotion. As such, few writers in recent memory have quite matched his work's intense critical and popular impact. The essays in this Companion, written by top Wallace scholars, offer a historical and cultural context for grasping Wallace's significance, provide rigorous individual readings of each of his major works, whether story collections, non-fiction, or novels, and address the key themes and concerns of these works, including aesthetics, politics, religion and spirituality, race, and post-humanism.
Note
Best known for his masterpiece 'Infinite Jest', David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace's desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and restorative function of literature resulted in works that appeal as much to a reader's intellect as they do emotion. As such, few writers in recent memory have quite matched his work's intense critical and popular impact. The essays in this Companion, written by top Wallace scholars, offer a historical and cultural context for grasping Wallace's significance, provide rigorous individual readings of each of his major works, whether story collections, non-fiction, or novels, and address the key themes and concerns of these works, including aesthetics, politics, religion and spirituality, race, and post-humanism.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.
Added Author
Clare, Ralph, 1975- editor.
Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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Slacker redemption: Wallace and generation X / Marshall Boswell
Wallace and American literature / Andrew Hoberek
Wallace's 'bad influence' / Lee Konstantinou
The broom of the system and Girl with curious hair / Matthew Luter
Brief interviews with hideous men / Adam Kelly
Oblivion / David Hering
Wallace's non-fiction / Jeffrey Severs
Infinite jest / Mary Holland
'Palely loitering': on not finishing (in) The pale king / Clare Hayes-Brady
Wallace's aesthetic / Robert L. McLaughlin
Wallace and politics / Andrew Warren
Wallace, spirituality, and religion / Matthew Mullins
Wallace and race / Lucas Thompson
Wallace's geographic metafiction / Jurrit Daalder
David (Foster) Wallace and the (world) system / Joseph Tabbi.

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