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Title: The Wallace Effect Condition: New Subtitle: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination Author: Marshall Boswell Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1501344900 EAN: 9781501344909 ISBN: 9781501344909 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 24/01/2019 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. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Item Weight: 254g Book Series: David Foster Wallace Studies Language: English Release Year: 2019
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