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Global Wallace : David Foster Wallace and world literature / Lucas Thompson

Thompson, Lucas [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

xiii, 271 Seiten ; 23 cm

Englisch

Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index

Erscheint auch als: Thompson, Lucas, author : Global Wallace. - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Global Wallace / Thompson, Lucas [GNDNR:1129282260] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5013-4270-7 ( : paperback); 978-1-5013-2066-8 (hbk. : £74.00)

978-1-5013-2067-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-5013-2068-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-5013-2067-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-5013-2068-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2016020576

GBB6D6142

OCoLC: 966655592     

OCoLC: 966655592 (aus SWB)     

HU 9088      Ähnliche Literatur

PS3573.A425635

813/.54 ; 813.54 ; 306.09

Basisklassifikation: 18.06 (Angloamerikanische Literatur) ; 17.94 (Literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen; Rezeption)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

* Wallace, David Foster [1962-2008] ; Weltliteratur ; Rezeption      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Wallace, David Foster -- Criticism and interpretation ; American literature -- Foreign influences ; Internationalism in literature ; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism ; Wallace, David Foster -- Criticism and interpretation ; American literature -- Foreign influences ; Internationalism in literature ; Literature and society -- History -- 20th century -- United States ; American fiction -- History and criticism -- 20th century

"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 that critiques US culture from oblique and unexpected vantage points. Using a wide range of comparative case studies, and drawing on extensive archival research, Global Wallace reveals David Foster Wallace's substantial debts to such unexpected figures as Jamaica Kincaid, Julio Cortázar, Jean Rhys, Octavio Paz, Leo Tolstoy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Albert Camus, among many others. It also offers a more comprehensive account of the key influences that Wallace scholars have already perceived, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, and Manuel Puig. By reassessing Wallace's body of work in relation to five broadly construed geographic territories -- Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, and Africa -- the book reveals the mechanisms with which Wallace played particular literary traditions off one another, showing how he appropriated vastly different global texts within his own fiction. By expanding the geographic coordinates of Wallace's work in this way, Global Wallace reconceptualizes contemporary American fiction, as being embedded within a global exchange of texts and ideas"--

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"Graduate students and scholars studying contemporary American fiction, David Foster Wallace, and world and comparative literature"--