The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1352-3 (ISBN)
She argues that Wallace’s work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace’s work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace’s approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism.
Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.
Clare Hayes-Brady is Lecturer in American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.
1. Introduction
Section A: Wallace and his World
2. “I’m a man of my –” Sketching the Incomplete
3. “It’s just the texture of the world I live in”: The Writer and the World
Section B: The Foundational Ideas
4. The Book, the Broom and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy
5. “An act of communication between one human being and another”: Writing and the Process of
Communication
6. Narcissism, Alienation and Commun(al)ity
Section C: Fail Again: Failure as Structure and Theme
7. Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure
8. “Personally I’m neutral on the menstruation point”: Gender, Difference and the Body
9. Freedom, Failure and the Heroic Citizen
10. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.2.2016 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 485 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-1352-5 / 1501313525 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-1352-3 / 9781501313523 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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