ISBN:
9781501342707
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9781501320668
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 271 Seiten
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23 cm
Series Statement:
David Foster Wallace studies Vol. 1
Series Statement:
David Foster Wallace studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thompson, Lucas, author Global Wallace
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thompson, Lucas Global Wallace
DDC:
813/.54
Keywords:
Wallace, David Foster Criticism and interpretation
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Wallace, David Foster Criticism and interpretation
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American literature Foreign influences
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Internationalism in literature
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Literature and society History 20th century
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American fiction History and criticism 20th century
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American literature Foreign influences
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Internationalism in literature
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Literature and society History
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20th century
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United States
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American fiction History and criticism
;
20th century
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Wallace, David Foster 1962-2008
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Weltliteratur
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Rezeption
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"Graduate students and scholars studying contemporary American fiction, David Foster Wallace, and world and comparative literature"--
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Wallace and the World -- Chapter One. Wallace and World Literature -- Chapter Two. Wallace and Latin America -- Chapter Three. Wallace and Russia -- Chapter Four. Wallace and Eastern Europe: Kafka and Others -- Chapter Five. French Existentialism's Afterlives: Wallace and the Fiction of the U.S. South -- Chapter Six. African-American Appropriations: Race, Hip-Hop, and Popular Anthropology -- Conclusion. "It's a Small Continent After All"? Wallace and the World -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index
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