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  title info:
    title: David Foster Wallace in context
  name:
    name part: Hayes-Brady, Clare
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and longstanding readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer.
  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 Seve…
  note: edited by Clare Hayes-Brady, University College Dublin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-419) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wallace, David Foster
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
  classification: PS3573.A425635 Z6624 2023
  classification: 813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)
  identifier: 9781316513323
  identifier: 1316513327
  identifier: 9781009073516
  identifier: 1009073516
  identifier: 9781009064545
  identifier: 2022033905
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220828
    record change date: 20230717142405.6
    record identifier: in00004726272