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The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resist
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- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 485g
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America. 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.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781501313523
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Book Title
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
485g
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