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 his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish
himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn.
Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines
novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that
introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would
later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published
after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's
persona and his literary preeminence. By re-situating Wallace's
work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace
Effect traces both the reach and the limits of Wallace's legacy.
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