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Author:   Clare Hayes-Brady (University College Dublin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9781316513323

ISBN 10:   1316513327
Pages:   375
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. David Foster Wallace and narratology Pia Masiero; 2. A meeting of minds: David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov and the ethics of empathy Marshall Boswell; 3. Writing in a material world: David Foster Wallace and 1980s fiction Ralph Clare; 4. Confidence man: Wallace and the American nineteenth century Catherine Toal; 5. David Foster Wallace and European literature Lucas Thompson; 6. David Foster Wallace and poetry Philip Coleman; 7. 'Non'-fiction Martin Eve; 8. Thanks everybody and I hope you like it: David Foster Wallace and entertainment Matthew Luter; 9. Visual culture Corrie Baldauf; Part II. Ideas: 10. Wallace and attention Alice Bennett; 11. After analysis: notes on the new sincerity from Wallace to Knausgaard Jon Baskin; 12. Perfectionism and the ethics of failure Áine Mahon; 13. The pragmatist possibility in David Foster Wallace's writings Antonio Aguilar Vazquez; 14. A tale of two theses: system J and The Broom of the System Maureen Eckert; 15. Free will and determinism Paul Jenner; 16. Mathematics of the infinite Stuart J. Taylor; 17. Wallace and existentialism Allard Den Dulk; 18. David Foster Wallace and religion Tim Personn; 19. Mr. Consciousness Jamie Redgate; Part III. Bodies: 20. No ordinary love: David Foster Wallace and sex Emily Russell; 21. 'The Limits of His Seductively Fine Mind': Wallace, whiteness and the feminine Daniela Franca Joffe; 22. Wallace and masculinity Edward Jackson; 23. Theorizing the other Dominik Steinhilber; 24. Wallace and disability Peter Sloane; 25. Queering Wallace: on the queer history of addiction fiction Vincent Haddad; Part IV. Systems: 26. Infinite jest as opiate fiction Alexander Moran; 27 David Foster Wallace and racial capitalism Colton Saylor; 28. Language and self-creation: David Foster Wallace's many ways of sounding American Mary Shapiro; 29. Very old land: David Foster Wallace and the myths and systems of agriculture Jeffrey Severs; 30. Ecologies Laurie McRae Andrew; 31. 'I Could, If You'd Let Me, Talk and Talk': institutions, dialogue and citizenship in David Foster Wallace Joel Roberts; 32. David and Dutch: Wallace, Reagan and the US Presidency David Hering ; 33. Wallace and publishing Tim Groenland; 34. Author here, there and everywhere: Wallace and biography Mike Miley.

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Clare Hayes-Brady is Associate Professor in American Literature at University College Dublin. She is the author of The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance (2016).

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