Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary

Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)

Understanding David Foster Wallace guides readers through thoughtful examinations of Wallaceâ€™s novels The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest and first two short story collections, Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. In his readings of these works, Marshall Boswell affirms that Wallace (1962â€“2008), in his fiction, compels our attention for the singular excellence of his work and his groundbreaking effort to chart a fruitful and affirmative new direction for literary fiction.
In addition to providing self-contained readings of each text, Boswell places Wallace within a trajectory of literary innovation that begins with James Joyce and continues through John Barth and Thomas Pynchon. Boswell contends that in charting a new course for literary practice, Wallace did not seek merely to overturn postmodernism or simply to return to modernism. Instead he moved resolutely forward with his fiction hoisting the baggage of modernism and postmodernism heavily, but respectfully, on its back.

Country	USA
Author	Marshall Boswell
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: University of South Carolina Press
EAN	9781570038877
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1570038872
Label	University of South Carolina Press
Manufacturer	University of South Carolina Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	248
PublicationDate	2009-08-31
Publisher	University of South Carolina Press
ReleaseDate	2009-08-31
Studio	University of South Carolina Press

Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)