David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to
focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the human body and
the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging,
accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the
overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American
author's works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that
good fiction is about what it means to be a 'human being'. A large
part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of
the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a
fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we
all desire 'to be reconciled'. Given the ubiquity of the themes of
embodiment in Wallace's work, this study is an important addition
to an expanding field. The book also opens up the themes addressed
to interrogate aspects of contemporary literature, culture, and
society more generally, placing Wallace's works in the history of
literary and philosophical engagements with the brute fact of
embodiment.
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