Marshall Boswell

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The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary ImaginationPaperback, 24 January 2019

The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
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Part of Series
David Foster Wallace Studies
Part of Series
David Foster Wallace Studies, 2
Print Length
184 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Date Published
24 Jan 2019
ISBN-10
1501344900
ISBN-13
9781501344909

Description

The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating "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 by his contemporaries.

A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence.

By re-situating Wallace's work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace Effect traces both the reach and the limits of Wallace's legacy.

Product Details

Author:
Marshall Boswell
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
24 January 2019
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm
Genre:
21st Century
ISBN-10:
1501344900
ISBN-13:
9781501344909
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
184
Weight:
317.51 gm

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