Understanding David Foster Wallace /

"Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so popular and influential. The original edition addressed only his first four works of fiction-Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boswell, Marshall, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
Series:Understanding contemporary American literature.
Subjects:
Wallace, David Foster > Criticism and interpretation.
Wallace, David Foster.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding David Foster Wallace
  • The broom of the system : Wallace, Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game
  • Girl with curious hair : inside and outside the set
  • Infinite jest : "too much fun for anyone mortal to hope to endure"
  • Brief interviews with hideous men : interrogations and consolidations
  • Oblivion : the nightmare of consciousness
  • The pale king : taxes, civics, and trickle-down citizenship.

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