Approaches to teaching the works of David Foster Wallace /
"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 c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Modern Language Association of America,
2019.
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| Series: | Approaches to teaching world literature ;
156. |
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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.