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

by Marshall Boswell

Book Overview

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"