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The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance by Clare Hayes-Brady (Paperback, 2017)
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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 n-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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-101501335847
ISBN-139781501335846
eBay Product ID (ePID)238363335
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameUnspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace : Language, Identity, and Resistance
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
SubjectLiterary Criticism
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorClare Hayes-Brady
FormatPaperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Date of Publication24/08/2017
Place of PublicationNew York
Country of PublicationUnited States
GenreLiterary Criticism
Author BiographyClare Hayes-Brady Is Lecturer in American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.
ImprintBloomsbury Academic USA
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