{"product_id":"9781501344909","title":"The Wallace Effect : David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wallace Effect\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Marshall Boswell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Effect \u003c\/i\u003eexplores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating “The Wallace Effect”-the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own.  Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy re-situating Wallace's work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, \u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Effect \u003c\/i\u003etraces both the reach and the limits of Wallace's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One measure of literary accomplishment is the resistance and resentment that a writer provokes in other writers, and by that measure David Foster Wallace's accomplishment was undeniably major.  It takes a scholar of Marshall Boswell's resourcefulness and perspicacity to show us exactly how this is so, as he does in this eye-opening book.” —\u003ci\u003eBrian McHale, Distinguished Professor of English, The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Effect \u003c\/i\u003eis the most extended and fruitful exploration of David Foster Wallace's influence on his literary contemporaries to date. Noting the sea change in American literature that Wallace's writing heralded, Boswell charts the novelistic courses of a number of writers who anxiously beat back against the resulting new current in compelling ways. Boswell demonstrates that whether these writers' works question, negotiate with, or condemn Wallace, what remains undeniable is Wallace's deep and lasting effect on contemporary literature. In \u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Effect\u003c\/i\u003e, Wallace emerges as a formidable author who inspires writers and readers alike both to embrace and resist his legacy.” —\u003ci\u003eRalph Clare, Associate Professor of English, Boise State University, USA, and editor of the Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace (2018).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Marshall Boswell, a pioneer in the study of Wallace, writes with dexterity and lucidity here about some of the author's favorite subjects: influence, autobiography, self-consciousness, and the need for literature to respond to what came before. Catching allusions and subtle critiques at every turn, Boswell weaves together predecessors, successors, and the man himself in a way that readers will find both instructive and fascinating.” —\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Severs, Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada, author of David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value (2017)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501344909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40708881055950,"sku":"9781501344909","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_0c908c62-f20c-4358-be92-ce6270ace65c.jpg?v=1640665801","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501344909","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}