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- The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
- The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: An Exquisite Corpus: Assembling a Wallace without Organs
- Part I Historical and Cultural Contexts
- 1 Slacker Redemption: Wallace and Generation X
- 2 Wallace and American Literature
- 3 Wallace’s “Bad” Influence
- Part II Early Works, Story Collections, and Nonfiction
- Part III The Major Novels
- Part IV Themes and Topics
- Guide to Further Reading
- Works by David Foster Wallace
- Index
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2 - Wallace and American Literature
from Part I - Historical and Cultural Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2018
- The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
- The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: An Exquisite Corpus: Assembling a Wallace without Organs
- Part I Historical and Cultural Contexts
- 1 Slacker Redemption: Wallace and Generation X
- 2 Wallace and American Literature
- 3 Wallace’s “Bad” Influence
- Part II Early Works, Story Collections, and Nonfiction
- Part III The Major Novels
- Part IV Themes and Topics
- Guide to Further Reading
- Works by David Foster Wallace
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
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- The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace , pp. 33 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018