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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hering, David
Titre(s) : David Foster Wallace [Texte imprimé] : fiction and form / David Hering
Publication : New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2016
Description matérielle : x, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; Vocality : "A flickering hand, dead and cold": reading Wallace's ghosts
; Spatiality: "In the middle of the middle of nowhere": regionalism and institutions
; Visuality: "Seeing by mirror-light": Wallace on reflection ; Finality: "Not even
close to complete": the many forms of The pale king.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In David Foster Wallace : Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures
of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final
unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts,
notes and letters, and taking account of the rapidly expanding field of Wallace scholarship,
this book argues that the form of Wallace's fiction is always inextricably bound up
within an ongoing conflict between the monologic and the dialogic, one strongly connected
with Wallace's sense of his own authorial presence and identity in the work. Hering
suggests that this conflict occurs at the level of both subject and composition, analysing
the importance of a number of provocative structural and critical contexts -- ghostliness,
institutionality, reflection -- to the fiction while describing how this argument
is also visible within the development of Wallace's manuscripts, comparing early drafts
with published material to offer a career-long framework of the construction of Wallace's
fiction. The final chapter offers an unprecedentedly detailed analysis of the troubled,
decade-long construction of the work that became The Pale King." ; "A fresh reassessment
of David Foster Wallace's entire fictional career and writing process"
Sujet(s) : Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008) -- Critique et interprétation
Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008) -- Technique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781628920550. - ISBN 1628920556 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451920987
Notice n° :
FRBNF45192098
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
