LEADER 04138nam 22005891 450 001 9910964245203321 005 20150811105752.0 010 $a9781501313554 010 $a150131355X 010 $a9781501313547 010 $a1501313541 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501313554 035 $a(CKB)3710000000539154 035 $a(EBL)4198060 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001592310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16288432 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001592310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13228979 035 $a(PQKB)10115850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4198060 035 $a(PPN)232354936 035 $a(OCoLC)933296650 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09259862 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781501313554BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000539154 100 $a20160427d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace $elanguage, identity, and resistance /$fClare Hayes-Brady 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781501335846 311 08$a1501335847 311 08$a9781501313523 311 08$a1501313525 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $2Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 676 $a813/.54 686 $aLIT000000$aLIT004020$2bisacsh 700 $aHayes-Brady$b Clare$01797758 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964245203321 996 $aThe unspeakable failures of David Foster Wallace$94340201 997 $aUNINA