David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" : new essays on the novels

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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" : new essays on the novels

edited by Marshall Boswell

Bloomsbury, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index

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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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List of Abbreviations Preface: "David Foster Wallace and the Long Thing" Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College, USA Part I: Wallace as Novelist David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas Adam Kelly, University of York, United Kingdom Wallace and Empathy: A Narrative Approach Toon Staes, University of Antwerp, Belgium Boredom, Irony, and Anxiety: Wallace and the Kierkegaardian View of the Self Allard den Dulk, Amsterdam University College, Netherlands Modelling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest and The Pale King Andrew Warren, Harvard University, USA Part II: The Novels The Broom of the System (1989) "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction Bradley J. Fest, University of Pittsburgh, USA Infinite Jest (1996) Representing Entertainment in Infinite Jest Philip Sayers, University of Toronto, Canada Encyclopedic Novels and the Cruft of Fiction: Infinite Jest's Endnotes David Letzler, CUNY Graduate Center, USA The Pale King (2011) "A Paradigm for the Life of Consciousness": The Pale King Stephen Burn, University of Glasgow, Scotland "What Am I, a Machine?": Humans and Information in The Pale King Conley Wouters, Brandeis University, USA The Politics of Boredom and the Boredom of Politics in The Pale King Ralph Clare, Boise State University, USA Trickle-Down Citizenship: Taxes and Civic Responsibility in The Pale King Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College, USA Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index

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