The Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace /
Best known for his masterpiece 'Infinite Jest,' David Foster Wallace reinvented 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 liter...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Summary: | Best known for his masterpiece 'Infinite Jest,' David Foster Wallace reinvented 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 262 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107195950 1107195950 9781108451772 1108451772 |