UID:
almafu_9959231917602883
Format:
1 online resource (298 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-60938-104-1
Series Statement:
The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture
Content:
Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace's writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the world's most influential authors. In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at t
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou - Introduction: Zoologists, Elephants, and Editors; Part 1: History; Paul Giles - All Swallowed Up: David Foster Wallace and American Literature; Don DeLillo - Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008; Josh Roiland - Getting Away from It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche's Concept of Oblivion; George Saunders - Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008; Part 2: Aesthetics
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Samuel Cohen - To Wish to Try to Sing to the Next Generation: Infinite Jest's HistoryRick Moody - Tribute Written for Wallace Family Memorial Book, 2008; Lee Konstantinou - No Bull: David Foster Wallace and Postironic Belief; David Lipsky - An Interview with David Foster Wallace; Heather Houser - Infinite Jest's Environmental Case for Disgust; Dave Eggers - Foreword to Tenth Anniversary Edition of Infinite Jest; Part 3: Community; Ed Finn - Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception
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Jonathan Franzen Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008Kathleen Fitzpatrick Infinite Summer:Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network; Michael Pietsch and Rick Moody On Editing David Foster Wallace: An Interview; Ira B. Nadel - Consider the Footnote; Molly Schwartzburg - Conclusion: Observations on the Archive at the Harry Ransom Center; Notes on Contributors; Permissions; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-60938-082-7
Language:
English
