{"product_id":"9781501330568","title":"David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): David Hering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDavid Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form\u003c\/i\u003e, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System \u003c\/i\u003eto his final unfinished novel \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHering 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There’s a chapter devoted to Wallace’s evolving articulation of voice, of space and of vision, respectively. Taken individually, these three chapters deepen our appreciation of Wallace’s work and its development. Taken together, they provide Hering with grounds for specifying, in the final chapter, just how ‘incomplete’ the published version of The Pale King can be taken to be.” - \u003ci\u003eOrganization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Quality as well as quantity characterize the scholarship in David Hering’s \u003ci\u003eDavid Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form\u003c\/i\u003e. Hering is comprehensive in treating the author’s work from four complementary perspectives: vocality, spatiality, visuality, and finality.” – \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501330568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40654238580942,"sku":"9781501330568","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_01868d57-8c7f-4090-bca3-a893c76b7c62.jpg?v=1639363802","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501330568","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}