David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: a Reader's Guide
<Span style=""font-style: italic;"">Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called<span style=""font-style: italic;""> Infinite Jest a ""three-stage rocket to the future, "" a work ""equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life, "" while <span style=""font-style: italic;"">Time Magazine inclu…
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- Full title :David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest : a Reader's Guide.
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<Span style=""font-style: italic;"">Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called<span style=""font-style: italic;""> Infinite Jest a ""three-stage rocket to the future, "" a work ""equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life, "" while <span style=""font-style: italic;"">Time Magazine included <span style=""font-style: italic;"">Infinite Jest on its list of 100 Gr.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (145 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441182180, 1441182187
- oclc:on1058346133
- LC Classification:PS3573.A425635 ǂb I5433 2012eb
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright; Reprint permissions; Contents; Preface; chronology; Chapter 1 Infinite Jest and the twentieth century: David Foster Wallace's legacy; Chapter 2 Problems in David Foster Wallace's poetics; Chapter 3 The novel; "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect" (991n. 24); "The Unfortunate Case of Me" (993n. 24); "No Troy" (990n. 24); "Insubstantial Country" (992n. 24); "Tennis, Everyone?" (986n. 24); Epilogue; Infinite test: Everything and More; Wallace in the shadow of no towers: Oblivion; Last words: The Pale King; Appendix; Notes; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3.
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