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Understanding David Foster Wallace / Marshall Boswell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boswell, Marshall, 1965- author.
- Series:
- Understanding contemporary American literature.
- Understanding contemporary American literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallace, David Foster--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wallace, David Foster.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 pages).
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "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-The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. This revised edition covers his final story collection, Oblivion, and his posthumous novel, The Pale King. Although critics sometimes label Wallace a postmodern writer, Marshall Boswell argues that he should be regarded as the nervous leader of some still-unnamed (and perhaps unnamable) third wave of modernism. Boswell's study directly confronts such arcane issues as postmodernism, information theory, semiotics, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and poststructuralism, yet it does so in a way that is comprehensible to a wide and general readership"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781643360683
- 164336068X
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