Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace / edited by Ralph Clare (Boise State University).

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Clare, Ralph, 1975-

Description

xviii, 262 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Best known for his masterpiece 'Infinite Jest', David Foster Wallace re-invented 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.

Series Statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Postmodernism (Literature)
• Wallace, David Foster > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 19-3623

ISBN

• 9781107195950
• 1107195950
• 9781108451772
• 1108451772
• 9781108679503 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018003682

OCLC

1021058738

Title

The Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace / edited by Ralph Clare (Boise State University).

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.

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Available to Stanford-affiliated users.

Added Author

Clare, Ralph, 1975- editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108679503

Research Call Number

JFE 19-3623