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<P>American novelist, essayist, and short story writer David Foster Wallace was known for his experimental writing style influenced by contemporary American culture. Essays from his most noted works survey the various themes that appear in his work such as his exploration of philosophy, meta-fiction, satire, psychology, and the irony of postmodernism.</P>

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CRITICAL INSIGHTS: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life and Influence.
1: On David Foster Wallace.
2: Biography of David Foster Wallace.
Critical Contexts.
3: David Foster Wallace and Millennial America.
4: David Foster Wallace: the Critical Reception.
5: &#x201C;Personally I&#x0027;m neutral on the menstruation point&#x201D;: David Foster Wallace and Gender.
6: Interpret you, INTERPRET-ME? Or, Fictional Pasts and Fictional Futures: The Predecessors and Contemporaries of David Foster Wallace.
Critical Readings.
7: An Understanding of One&#x0027;s Place in the System: An Introduction to The Broom of the System.
8: Proteus Bound: Pinning Girl with Curious Hair under Short Story Theory.
9: Form as Strategy in Infinite Jest.
10: Signifying Everything: Mapping the Subject in Infinite Jest.
11: &#x201C;Sappy or No, It&#x0027;s True&#x201D;: Affect and Expression in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
12: Attention, Retention, and Extension in Oblivion: Stories.
13: &#x201C;E Pluribus Unum&#x201D;: David Foster Wallace&#x0027;s A Supposedly Fun Thing I&#x0027;ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments.
14: &#x201C;The Nature of the Fun&#x201D;: The Late Essays of David Foster Wallace.
15: A King of Shreds and Patches: Assembling Wallace&#x0027;s Final Novel.
16: Why the Whiteness?: Race in The Pale King.
17: Difficulties of Reality in Cora Diamond and David Foster Wallace.
18: Early-Morning Uncertainties: Anxiety, Abstraction, and Infinity in Everything and More: A Compact History of &#x221E;.
Resources.
David Foster Wallace: A Chronology.
Works by David Foster Wallace.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.

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