Understanding David Foster Wallace

Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so popular and influential. This revised edition adds two new chapters covering his final story collection and his posthumous novel, The Pale King.

A propos de l'auteur

Marshall Boswell is the author of John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion and The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination, as well as two works of fiction, Trouble with Girls and Alternative Atlanta. With Stephen Burn he is the coeditor of A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies and the editor of David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels. Boswell is a professor of English literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.

Résumé

Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so popular and influential. This revised edition adds two new chapters covering his final story collection and his posthumous novel, The Pale King.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Marshall Boswell
• Edition: The University of South Carolina Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781643360690
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-069-0
• Pages: 184
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 226 mm x 14 mm
• Poids: 274 g
• Thèmes: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises