The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace

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Edited by Ralph Clare, Boise State University, Idaho

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2018
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781108553902
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108553902

Collection:: Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature after 1945
Series:: Cambridge Companions to Literature

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Best known for his masterpiece Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace's desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and restorative function of literature resulted in works that appeal as much to a reader's intellect as they do emotion. As such, few writers in recent memory have quite matched his work's intense critical and popular impact. The essays in this Companion, written by top Wallace scholars, offer a historical and cultural context for grasping Wallace's significance, provide rigorous individual readings of each of his major works, whether story collections, non-fiction, or novels, and address the key themes and concerns of these works, including aesthetics, politics, religion and spirituality, race, and post-humanism. This wide-ranging volume is a necessary resource for understanding an author now widely regarded as one of the most influential and important of his time.

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The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
pp i-ii

The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xi

Acknowledgments
pp xii-xiii

Chronology
pp xiv-xviii

Introduction: An Exquisite Corpus: Assembling a Wallace without Organs
pp 1-16

Part I - Historical and Cultural Contexts
pp 17-64

1 - Slacker Redemption: Wallace and Generation X
pp 19-32

2 - Wallace and American Literature
pp 33-48

3 - Wallace’s “Bad” Influence
pp 49-64

Part II - Early Works, Story Collections, and Nonfiction
pp 65-124

4 - The Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hair
pp 67-81

5 - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
pp 82-96

6 - Oblivion
pp 97-110

7 - Wallace’s Nonfiction
pp 111-124

Part III - The Major Novels
pp 125-156

8 - Infinite Jest
pp 127-141

9 - “Palely Loitering”: On Not Finishing (in) The Pale King
pp 142-156

Part IV - Themes and Topics
pp 157-248

10 - Wallace’s Aesthetic
pp 159-172

11 - Wallace and Politics
pp 173-189

12 - Wallace, Spirituality, and Religion
pp 190-203

13 - Wallace and Race
pp 204-219

14 - Wallace’s Geographic Metafiction
pp 220-234

15 - David (Foster) Wallace and the (World) System
pp 235-248

Guide to Further Reading
pp 249-252

Works by David Foster Wallace
pp 253-254

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