Marshall Boswell

The Wallace Effect

David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

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The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Leading Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell illuminates The Wallace Effect--the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work. He examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. He also explores four novels published after Wallace's death that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence.… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-5013-4490-9
EAN: 9781501344909
Produktnummer: 26652853
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm 254 g
Gewicht: 254

Über den Autor

Marshall Boswell is Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA. He is the author of four books, including Understanding David Foster Wallace (2004) and John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion (2001), and the editor of three books, including David Foster Wallace and 'The Long Thing' (Bloomsbury, 2014) and A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies (co-editor, 2013). He served as Guest Editor for a two-part special issue of Studies in the Novel devoted to David Foster Wallace's novels.