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David Foster Wallace
* The cult novel by one of America’s most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look
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A Library of America special publication.
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*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST.
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In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life’s most delicious topics.
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Matt Prout
Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace's oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction.
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Dr. Lucas Thompson (University of Sydney, Australia)
David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace’s investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his…
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Paolo Pitari
This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped…
Laurie McRae Andrew
Explores the relationship between geography and David Foster Wallace's novels
American novelist, essayist, and short story writer David Foster Wallace was known for his experimental writing style influenced by contemporary American culture. Essays from his most noted works, including his…
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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so…
Jon Baskin
This book approaches David Foster Wallace not only as a fiction writer but also as a cultural critic and a moral philosopher whose formal innovations were intended as therapies for…
Peter Sloane
This book is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance…
From Tristram Shandy to Fredric Jameson, Consider David Foster Wallace blazes a trail into the new territory of David Foster Wallace studies. Greg Carlisle, author of the landmark Wallace study…
Marshall Boswell
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…
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…
Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays, to a book about transfinite mathematics, to vertiginous fictions…
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David Foster Wallace wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System and three story collections. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly…
This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of David Foster Wallace’s work. Short essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among…
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Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading.
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night…
Dr. David Hering (University of Liverpool, UK)
A fresh reassessment of David Foster Wallace’s entire fictional career and writing process –
Prominent scholars explore varieties of otherness in Wallace's open work by engaging with the dialogue his writing establishes with non-literary discourses such as cinema (French Nouvelle Vague), music (rap, in…
Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work of David Foster Wa…
This Companion provides a compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace, one of the most important American writers of the contemporary era. The essays within…
A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite. -New York Times
David Foster Wallace’s works engaged with his literary moment - roughly summarized as postmodernism - and with the author’s historical context. The essays in this volume suggest ways to explain…
Rob Mayo
This is the first full-length study of a critically overlooked theme, addressing a major gap in Wallace studies. It explores Wallace's complex engagement with philosophical and medical ideas of emotional…
This is the first full-length study of a critically overlooked theme, addressing a major gap in Wallace studies. It explores Wallace’s complex engagement with philosophical and medical ideas of emotional…
Expanded and with a new introduction by David Streitfeld
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Marshall Boswell (Rhodes College, USA)
The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace’s contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating The Wallace Effect -the aura…
Scholars of literature, religion, and philosophy explore the subject of religion in the life and writings of David Foster Wallace –
Rainer Holl
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, TU Dortmund (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In 1996, David Foster Wallace…
Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied, If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about…
Carlisle Greg,Greg Carlisle
From the author of Elegant Complexity comes a cogent analysis of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion. Nature’s Nightmare is the first book of criticism devoted to Wallace’s masterful story collection. Carlisle…
Dr. Tim Groenland (University College Dublin, Ireland)
The place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and (often inaccessible) archival resources to bring it into…
