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The Wallace effect : David Foster Wallace and the contemporary literary imagination

Title
The Wallace effect : David Foster Wallace and the contemporary literary imagination / Marshall Boswell.
Author
Boswell, Marshall, 1965-
Publication
  • New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
  • ©2019

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xiii, 170 pages; 22 cm.
Series Statement
David Foster Wallace studies ; vol. 2
Uniform Title
David Foster Wallace studies ; v. 2.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
Contents
Part One. Toward Wallace -- Something both and neither: marshes, marriage, and the fertile invention of John Barth's The Tidewater Tales --The awful way back to we: crackpot realism and ironic liberalism in Richard Powers's Prisoner's Dilemma -- Part Two. The Wallace Effect -- The rival lover: David Foster Wallace and the anxiety of influence in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot -- The varieties of irony: Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and the comedy of redemption -- Competitive friendship: love and reckoning in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom -- Against Wallace: Amy Hungerford, Lauren Groff, and the resistance to genius -- Conclusion: Love and cruelty.
Call Number
JFD 19-2311
ISBN
  • 9781501344947
  • 1501344943
  • 9781501344909
  • 1501344900
OCLC
1028837675
Author
Boswell, Marshall, 1965- author.
Title
The Wallace effect : David Foster Wallace and the contemporary literary imagination / Marshall Boswell.
Publisher
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
David Foster Wallace studies ; vol. 2
David Foster Wallace studies ; v. 2.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 19-2311
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