The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

by Marshall Boswell

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The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating "The Wallace Effect"-the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries.

A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501344900

ISBN13:9781501344909

Release Date:January 2019

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

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