David Foster Wallace and the body:

"David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet cen...

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Main Author: Sloane, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2019
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Routledge studies in contemporary literature 32
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author's works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a 'human being'. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire 'to be reconciled'"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429286483
0429286481
9781000015218
1000015211
9781000008692
100000869X
9781000001853
1000001857

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