Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index.
Contents:
About This Volume by Philip Coleman -- On David Foster Wallace by Philip Coleman -- Biography of David Foster Wallace by Philip Coleman -- David Foster Wallace and Millennial America by Kiki Benzon -- David Foster Wallace: the Critical Reception by Adam Kelly -- "Personally I'm neutral on the menstruation point". David Foster Wallace and Gender by Clare Hayes-Brady -- Interpret you, INTERPRET-ME? Or, Fictional Pasts and Fictional Futures: The Predecessors and Contemporaries of David Foster Wallace by Mark Sheridan -- An Understanding of One's Place in the System: An Introduction to The Broom of the System by Aisling O'Gara -- Proteus Bound: Pinning Girl with Curious Hair under Short Story Theory by Steve Gronert Ellerhoff -- Form as Strategy in Infinite Jest by David Hering -- Signifying Everything: Mapping the Subject in Infinite Jest by Alexander Resar -- "Sappy or no, it's true": Affect and Expression in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Coughlan -- Attention, Retention, and Extension in Oblivion: Stories by Charles Nixon -- "E Pluribus Unum": David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by Ron Callan -- "The Nature of the Fun": The Late Essays of David Foster Wallace by Ira Nadel -- A King of Shreds and Patches: Assembling David Foster Wallace's Final Novel by Tim Groenland -- Why the Whiteness?: Race in The Pale King by Jorge Araya -- Difficulties of Reality in Cora Diamond and David Foster Wallace by Aine Mahon -- Early-Morning Uncertainties: Anxiety, Abstraction, and Infinity in Everything and More: A Compact History of by Aengus Woods -- David Foster Wallace: A Chronology -- Works by David Foster Wallace.
Summary:
"American novelist, essayist, and short story writer David Foster Wallace was known for his experimental writing style influenced by contemporary American culture. Essays from his most noted works, including his critically acclaimed novel, Infinite Jest, survey the various themes that appear in his work such as his exploration of philosophy, meta-fiction, satire, psychology, and the irony of postmodernism"--Amazon.
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