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  title info:
    title: Approaches to teaching the works of David Foster Wallace
  name:
    name part: Burn, Stephen
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Holland, Mary
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "David Foster Wallace's works engaged with his literary moment--roughly summarized as postmodernism--and with the author's historical context. From the famous complexity of novels such as Infinite Jest to the direct critique of American culture in his essays, his works have at their core essential human concerns such as self-understanding, connecting with others, ethical behavior, and finding meaning. The essays in this volume suggest ways to elucidate Wallace's philosophical and literary preoccupations for today's students, who continue to contend with urgent issues, both personal and political, through reading literature. Part 1, "Materials," offers guidance on editions of Wallace's works and critical responses to them. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," discuss teaching key works and genres in high school settings, first-year undergraduate writing classes, American literature surveys, seminars on Wallace, and world literature courses. They examine Wallace's social and philosophical contexts and contributions, treating topics such as gender, literary ethics, and the culture of writing programs." -- Publisher's description
  table of contents: Part One: Materials. Introduction -- Novels and Short Fiction -- Nonfiction and Reviews -- Readings for Students -- The Instructor's Library -- Part Two: Approaches. Introduction -- Teaching Key Works and Genres. Teaching Infinite Jest / Marshall Boswell -- Last Words: Teaching The Pale King / Stephen J. Burn -- Teaching Wallace's Short Fiction / Philip Coleman -- Teaching Wallace's Pop Criticism / Matthew Luter -- Classroom Contexts. Infinite Unrest: "Octet," High School, and the Revolving Door of Metanarrative / Mike Miley -- Considering Composition: Teaching Wallace in the First-Year Writing Classroom / Mark Bresnan -- Wallaceward the American Literature Survey Course Takes Its Way / Ralph Clare -- Wallace as Major Author: Teaching the Oeuvre / Jeffrey Severs -- Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading / Kathleen Fitzpatrick -- Wallace and Literary History: Influences and Intertexts. After Deconstruction: Wallace's New Realism / Mary K. Holland -- Beyond the Limit: Teaching Wallace and the Systems Novel / Patrick O'Donnell -- Twenty-First-Century Wallace: Teaching Wallace amid His Contemporaries / Robert L. McLaughlin -- Wallace and World Literature / Lucas Thompson -- Intellectual and Social Contexts. Early Wallace and Program Culture / Andrew Warren -- Wallace and Philosophy / Allard den Dulk -- Desire, Self, and Other: Wallace and Gender / Hamilton Carroll -- Can Empathy Be Taught? Wallace's Literary Ethics / Matthew Mullins.
  note: edited by Stephen J. Burn and Mary K. Holland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wallace, David Foster
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wallace, David Foster
  subject:
    topic: Study skills
  classification: PS3573.A425635 Z5225 2019
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Approaches to teaching the works of David Foster Wallace
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2019
    identifier: (DLC) 2019017447
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    title info:
      title: Approaches to teaching world literature ; 156
  identifier: 9781603294645
  identifier: 9781603293914
  identifier: 1603293914
  identifier: 9781603293921
  identifier: 1603294643
  identifier: 2019017074
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190409
    record change date: 20250318214855.6
    record identifier: in00004092471
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng