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The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace - Language, Identity, and Resistance (Paperback)
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The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace - Language, Identity, and Resistance (Paperback)
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This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as
the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified
horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding
ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to
contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing.
Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace
studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing,
arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to
the condition of neo-liberal America. She argues that Wallace's
work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades
the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing.
Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of
'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the
book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a
coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus
non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions
that have become dominant over the last five years. While
demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores
Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response
to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of
language and society, along with less explored themes such as
gender, naming and heroism. Situating Wallace as both a product of
his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding
interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic
self in late-twentieth-century America.
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