David Foster Wallace: fiction and form

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Vocality "A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold": Reading Wallace's Ghosts Chapter 2 Spatiality "In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere": Regionalism and Institutions Chapter 3 Visuality "Seeing by M...

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Main Author: Hering, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic [2017]
Edition:Reprint
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Vocality "A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold": Reading Wallace's Ghosts Chapter 2 Spatiality "In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere": Regionalism and Institutions Chapter 3 Visuality "Seeing by Mirror-Light": Wallace on Reflection Chapter 4 Finality "Not Even Close to Complete": The Many Forms of The Pale King Works Cited
" In David Foster Wallace : Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the rapidly expanding field of Wallace scholarship, this book argues that the form of Wallace's fiction is always inextricably bound up within an ongoing conflict between the monologic and the dialogic, one strongly connected with Wallace's sense of his own authorial presence and identity in the work. Hering suggests that this conflict occurs at the level of both subject and composition, analysing the importance of a number of provocative structural and critical contexts -- ghostliness, institutionality, reflection -- to the fiction while describing how this argument is also visible within the development of Wallace's manuscripts, comparing early drafts with published material to offer a career-long framework of the construction of Wallace's fiction. The final chapter offers an unprecedentedly detailed analysis of the troubled, decade-long construction of the work that became The Pale King. "--
"A fresh reassessment of David Foster Wallace's entire fictional career and writing process"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:x, 202 Seiten Illustration
ISBN:9781501330568
9781628920550

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