04138nam 22005891 450 991096424520332120150811105752.09781501313554150131355X9781501313547150131354110.5040/9781501313554(CKB)3710000000539154(EBL)4198060(SSID)ssj0001592310(PQKBManifestationID)16288432(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001592310(PQKBWorkID)13228979(PQKB)10115850(MiAaPQ)EBC4198060(PPN)232354936(OCoLC)933296650(UtOrBLW)bpp09259862(UtOrBLW)BP9781501313554BC(EXLCZ)99371000000053915420160427d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace language, identity, and resistance /Clare Hayes-BradyNew York :Bloomsbury Academic,2016.1 online resource (233 pages)Description based upon print version of record.9781501335846 1501335847 9781501313523 1501313525 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction Section A: Wallace and his World -- 2. "I'm a man of my --" Sketching the Incomplete -- 3. "It's just the texture of the world I live in": The Writer and the World Section B: The Foundational Ideas -- 4. The Book, the Broom and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy -- 5. "An act of communication between one human being and another": Writing and the Process of Communication -- 6. Narcissism, Alienation and Commun(al)ity Section C: Fail Again: Failure as Structure and Theme -- 7. Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure -- 8. "Personally I'm neutral on the menstruation point": Gender, Difference and the Body -- 9. Freedom, Failure and the Heroic Citizen -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index."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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers813/.54LIT000000LIT004020bisacshHayes-Brady Clare1797758UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910964245203321The unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace4340201UNINA