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David Foster Wallace in context / edited by Clare Hayes-Brady.

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"David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and usable resource, this volume conceptualizes his...

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Other Authors: Hayes-Brady, Clare (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
Subjects:
Wallace, David Foster > Criticism and interpretation.
Wallace, David Foster.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • David Foster Wallace and narratology / Pia Masiero
  • A meeting of minds : David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov and the ethics of empathy / Marshall Boswell
  • Writing in a material world : David Foster Wallace and 1980s fiction / Ralph Clare
  • Confidence man : Wallace and the American nineteenth century / Catherine Toal
  • David Foster Wallace and European literature / Lucas Thompson
  • David Foster Wallace and poetry / Philip Coleman
  • David Foster Wallace's 'Non'-fiction / Martin Eve
  • Thanks everybody and I hope you like it : David Foster Wallace and entertainment / Matthew Luter
  • David Foster Wallace and Visual culture / Corrie Baldauf
  • David Foster Wallace and attention / Alice Bennett
  • After analysis : notes on the new sincerity from Wallace to Knausgaard / Jon Baskin
  • Perfectionism and the ethics of failure / Áine Mahon
  • The pragmatist possibility in David Foster Wallace's writings / Antonio Aguilar Vazquez
  • A tale of two theses : system J and The broom of the system / Maureen Eckert
  • Free will and determinism / Paul Jenner
  • David Foster Wallace's Mathematics of the infinite / Stuart J. Taylor
  • David Foster Wallace and existentialism / Allard Den Dulk
  • David Foster Wallace and religion / Tim Personn
  • Mr. Consciousness / Jamie Redgate
  • No ordinary love : David Foster Wallace and sex / Emily Russell
  • 'The Limits of His Seductively Fine Mind' : Wallace, whiteness and the feminine / Daniela Franca Joffe
  • David Foster Wallace and masculinity / Edward Jackson
  • Theorizing the other / Dominik Steinhilber
  • David Foster Wallace and disability / Peter Sloane
  • Queering Wallace : on the queer history of addiction fiction / Vincent Haddad
  • Infinite jest as opiate fiction / Alexander Moran
  • David Foster Wallace and racial capitalism / Colton Saylor
  • Language and self-creation : David Foster Wallace's many ways of sounding American / Mary Shapiro
  • Very old land : David Foster Wallace and the myths and systems of agriculture / Jeffrey Severs
  • David Foster Wallace's Ecologies / Laurie McRae Andrew
  • 'I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk' : institutions, dialogue and citizenship in David Foster Wallace / Joel Roberts
  • David and Dutch : Wallace, Reagan and the US Presidency / David Hering
  • David Foster Wallace and publishing / Tim Groenland
  • Author here, there and everywhere : Wallace and biography / Mike Miley.

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