Research Catalog

Title

The legacy of David Foster Wallace / edited by Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou.

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Samuel S.
• Konstantinou, Lee

Description

xxv, 270 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace's writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the world's most influential authors."--p. [4] of cover.

Series Statement

The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• New American canon.

Subject

Wallace, David Foster > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Zoologists, elephants, and editors / Samuel Cohen, Lee Konstantinou -- History. All swallowed up : David Foster Wallace and American literature / Paul Giles -- Informal remarks from David Foster Wallace memorial service in New York on October 23, 2008 / Don DeLillo -- Getting away from it all : the literary journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche's concept of oblivion / Josh Roiland -- Informal remarks from the David Foster Wallace memorial service in New York on October 23, 2008 / George Saunders -- Aesthetics. To wish to try to sing to the next generation : Infinite jest's history / Samuel Cohen -- Tribute written for Wallace family memorial book, 2008 / Rick Moody -- No bull : David Foster Wallace and postironic belief / Lee Konstantinou -- Interview with David Foster Wallace / David Lipsky -- Infinite jest's environmental case for disgust / Heather Houser -- Foreword to tenth anniversary edition of Infinite jest / Dave Eggers -- Community. Becoming yourself : the afterlife of reception / Ed Finn -- Informal remarks from the David Foster Wallace memorial service in New York on October 23, 2008 / Jonathan Franzen -- Infinite summer : reading, empathy, and the social network / Kathleen Fitzpatrick -- On editing David Foster Wallace : an interview / Michael Pietsch, Rick Moody -- Consider the footnote / Ira B. Nadel -- Conclusion: Observations on the archive at the Harry Ransom Center / Molly Schwartzburg.

ISBN

• 9781609380823 (pbk : acid-free paper)
• 1609380827 (pbk : acid-free paper)
• 9781609381042 (ebook)
• 1609381041 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011042542

OCLC

• 759395858
• SCSB-12650968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library