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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace
  name:
    name part: Clare, Ralph
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: edited by Ralph Clare, Boise State University.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wallace, David Foster
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Postmodernism in literature
  classification: PS3573.A425635 Z58 2018
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge companions to literature
  identifier: 9781107195950
  identifier: 1107195950
  identifier: 9781108451772
  identifier: 1108451772
  identifier: 9781108679503 (PDF ebook)
  identifier: 2018003682
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180126
    record change date: 20190422105055.0
    record identifier: in00004051977