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Title David Foster Wallace / editor, Philip Coleman, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).

Publication Info. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Armenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2015.
©2015

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Edition [First edition].
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages).
text file
Series Critical insights.
Critical insights.
Note Edition statement supplied by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents About This Volume / Philip Coleman -- On David Foster Wallace / Philip Coleman -- Biography of David Foster Wallace / Philip Coleman -- David Foster Wallace and Millennial America / Kiki Benzon -- David Foster Wallace: the critical reception / Adam Kelly -- "Personally I'm neutral on the menstruation point": David Foster Wallace and gender / Clare Hayes-Brady -- Interpret you, INTERPRET-ME? Or, Fictional pasts and fictional futures: the predecessors and contemporaries of David Foster Wallace / Mark Sheridan -- An Understanding of one's place in the system: An introduction to The Broom of the System / Aisling O'Gara -- Proteus bound: pinning Girl with Curious Hair under short story theory / Steve Gronert Ellerhoff -- Form as strategy in Infinite Jest / David Hering -- Signifying everything: mapping the subject in Infinite Jest / Alexander Resar -- "Sappy or no, it's true": affect and expression in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men / David Coughlan -- Attention, retention, and extension in Oblivion: Stories / Charles Nixon -- "E Pluribus Unum": David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments / Ron Callan -- "The nature of the fun": the late essays of David Foster Wallace / Ira Nadel -- A King of shreds and patches: assembling David Foster Wallace's final novel / Tim Groenland -- Why the whiteness?: race in The Pale King / Jorge Araya -- Difficulties of reality in Cora Diamond and David Foster Wallace / Aine Mahon -- Early-morning uncertainties: anxiety, abstraction, and infinity in Everything and More: A Compact History of [infinity symbol] / Aengus Woods -- David Foster Wallace: A Chronology -- Works by David Foster Wallace.
Summary This collection of essays contributes to a global discussion concerning the value and meaning of David Foster Wallace's work, providing fresh readings and insights on texts that have already received considerable critical attention but also advancing new ways of understanding one of the most important American writers of the late twentieth century.
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Subject Wallace, David Foster -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wallace, David Foster.
Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Philosophy in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Satire, American -- History and criticism.
Satire, American.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Coleman, Philip, editor.
Other Form: Print version: David Foster Wallace. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015] 9781619255135 (OCoLC)905019658
ISBN 9781619255142 (electronic book)
1619255146 (electronic book)
9781619255135
1619255138