Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature

by Lucas Thompson

Book Overview

David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompson shows how, time and again, Wallace's fiction draws on a diverse range of global texts, appropriating various forms of world literature in the attempt to craft fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501342703
• ISBN13: 9781501342707
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"