Understanding David Foster Wallace - (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) 2nd Edition by Marshall Boswell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Like the books that serve as its primary subject, Boswell's study directly confronts such arcane issues as postmodernism, information theory, semiotics, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and poststructuralism, yet it does so in a way that is comprehensible to a wide and general readership--the very same readership that has enthusiastically embraced Wallace's challenging yet entertaining and redemptive fiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Since its publication in 2003, <i>Understanding David Foster Wallace</i> has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so popular and influential. A seminal text in the burgeoning field of David Foster Wallace studies, the original edition of <i>Understanding David Foster Wallace</i> was nevertheless incomplete as it addressed only his first four works of fiction--namely the novels <i>The Broom of the System</i> and<i> Infinite Jest </i>and the story collections <i>Girl with Curious Hair</i> and <i>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</i>. This revised edition adds two new chapters covering his final story collection, <i>Oblivion</i>, and his posthumous novel, <i>The Pale King</i>. </p><p>Tracing Wallace's relationship to modernism and postmodernism, this volume provides close readings of all his major works of fiction. Although critics sometimes label Wallace a postmodern writer, Boswell argues that he should be regarded as the nervous leader of some still-unnamed (and perhaps unnamable) third wave of modernism. In charting a new direction for literary practice, Wallace does not seek to overturn postmodernism, nor does he call for a return to modernism. Rather his work moves resolutely forward while hoisting the baggage of modernism and postmodernism heavily, but respectfully, on its back. </p><p>Like the books that serve as its primary subject, Boswell's study directly confronts such arcane issues as postmodernism, information theory, semiotics, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and poststructuralism, yet it does so in a way that is comprehensible to a wide and general readership--the very same readership that has enthusiastically embraced Wallace's challenging yet entertaining and redemptive fiction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Boswell makes Wallace much easier to understand, in terms of both his work and his place in the literary canon, in which he is among Pynchon, Barth, Franzen, Eggers, and DeLillo, men who wrote books mostly about men... Recommended.</p>-- "Choice Reviews"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Marshall Boswell is the author of <i>John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion</i> and<i> The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination</i>, as well as two works of fiction, <i>Trouble with Girls</i> and <i>Alternative Atlanta</i>. With Stephen Burn he is the coeditor of <i>A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies</i> and the editor of <i>David Foster Wallace and The Long Thing: New Essays on the Novels</i>. Boswell is a professor of English literature at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.</p>
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