The unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace : language, identity, and resistance
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The unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace : language, identity, and resistance
（Literary studies）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America.
She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism.
Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.
目次
1. Introduction
Section A: Wallace and his World
2. "I'm a man of my -" Sketching the Incomplete
3. "It's just the texture of the world I live in": The Writer and the World
Section B: The Foundational Ideas
4. The Book, the Broom and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy
5. "An act of communication between one human being and another": Writing and the Process of
Communication
6. Narcissism, Alienation and Commun(al)ity
Section C: Fail Again: Failure as Structure and Theme
7. Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure
8. "Personally I'm neutral on the menstruation point": Gender, Difference and the Body
9. Freedom, Failure and the Heroic Citizen
10. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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