The Legacy of David Foster Wallace |
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| Editor:
| Cohen, Samuel
Konstantinou, Lee |
| Series title: | New American Canon Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-082-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallace's fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topics--including Wallace's relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus
Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination,...
More DescriptionIn this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallace's fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topics--including Wallace's relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination, and the "social life" of his fiction and nonfiction--contributors plumb sources as diverse as Amazon.com reader recommendations, professional book reviews, the 2009 Infinite Summer project, and the David Foster Wallace archive at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Center.