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Marshall Boswell - David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing", E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2014

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing"

New Essays on the Novels

Av Marshall Boswell

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Of the twelve books David Foster Wallace published both during his lifetime and posthumously, only three were novels. Nevertheless, Wallace always thought of himself primarily as a novelist. From his college years at Amherst, when he wrote his first novel as part of a creative honors thesis, to his final days, Wallace was buried in a novel project, which he often referred to as "the Long Thing." Meanwhile, the short stories and journalistic assignments he worked on during those years he characterized as "playing hooky from a certain Larger Thing." Wallace was also a specific kind of novelist, devoted to producing a specific kind of novel, namely the omnivorous, culture-consuming "encyclopedic" novel, as described in 1976 by Edward Mendelson in a ground-breaking essay on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" is a state-of-the art guide through Wallace's three major works, including the generation-defining Infinite Jest. These essays provide fresh new readings of each of Wallace's novels as well as thematic essays that trace out patterns and connections across the three works. Most importantly, the collection includes six chapters on Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, which will prove to be foundational for future scholars of this important text.
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Marshall Boswell is Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA. He is the author of John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion and Understanding David Foster Wallace. He is the co-editor, with Stephen Burn, of A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies and served as Guest Editor for a two-part Special Issue of Studies in the Novel devoted to David Foster Wallace's novels. He is also the the author of two works of fiction, Trouble with Girls and the novel Alternative Atlanta.

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A new collection of essays, edited by the pioneering Wallace scholar, Marshall Boswell, is dedicated to the literary form most conspicuously suited to a writer intent on communicating entire informational universes within and without … The essays here reflect the polymathic scope of Wallace's engagement with the world and the world of ideas … A principle value of this collection is to gather early critical accounts of an encyclopedic novel destined to refine our view of Wallace's achievement … As another prominent Wallace scholar, Stephen J. Burn, puts it here, we are still 'at the prototype phase of The Pale King criticism … it is only when we start to disentangle what Wallace originally planned from the published text … that we can begin the critical project of understanding The Pale King in earnest.

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