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The Wallace effect : David Foster Wallace and the contemporary literary imagination / Marshall Boswell.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A425635 Z66 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boswell, Marshall, 1965- author.
- Series:
- David Foster Wallace studies ; v. 2.
- David Foster Wallace studies ; vol. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallace, David Foster--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Wallace, David Foster--Influence.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 170 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Toward Wallace
- 1 Something Both and Neither: Marshes, Marriage, and the Fertile Invention of John Barth's The Tidewater Tales p. 15
- 2 The Awful Way Back to We: Crackpot Realism and Ironic Liberalism in Richard Powers's Prisoner's Dilemma p. 37
- Part 2 The Wallace Effect
- 3 The Rival Lover: David Foster Wallace and the Anxiety of Influence in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot p. 61
- 4 The Varieties of Irony: Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and the Comedy of Redemption p. 81
- 5 Competitive Friendship: Love and Reckoning in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom p. 101
- 6 Against Wallace: Amy Hungerford, Lauren Groff, and the Resistance to Genius p. 125.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501344947
- 1501344943
- 9781501344909
- 1501344900
- OCLC:
- 1028837675
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