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A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies“Location’s Location”: Placing David Foster Wallace

A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies: “Location’s Location”: Placing David Foster Wallace [It seems counterintuitive to read David Foster Wallace as a writer of place, let alone a regional writer. The child of transplanted intellectuals, he was a citizen of the world of ideas. It is hard to imagine (or perhaps to stomach) the prospect of some future tour of the Midwest rebranded, along the lines of Hardy’s Wessex, as Wallace Country. (A gazetteer of metro Boston, ghost-mapped by Infinite Jest, as Dublin has been by Ulysses, appears more plausible.)1 Nevertheless, it is surprisingly instructive, if provocative, to examine his evocations of, and reflections upon, place, space, and region, even as they complicate or confound our assumptions about such writing.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies“Location’s Location”: Placing David Foster Wallace

Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Book Series
Editors: Boswell, Marshall; Burn, Stephen J.
Quinn, Paul
Springer Journals — Nov 7, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-34112-2
Pages
87 –106
DOI
10.1057/9781137078346_5
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Abstract

[It seems counterintuitive to read David Foster Wallace as a writer of place, let alone a regional writer. The child of transplanted intellectuals, he was a citizen of the world of ideas. It is hard to imagine (or perhaps to stomach) the prospect of some future tour of the Midwest rebranded, along the lines of Hardy’s Wessex, as Wallace Country. (A gazetteer of metro Boston, ghost-mapped by Infinite Jest, as Dublin has been by Ulysses, appears more plausible.)1 Nevertheless, it is surprisingly instructive, if provocative, to examine his evocations of, and reflections upon, place, space, and region, even as they complicate or confound our assumptions about such writing.]

Published: Nov 7, 2015

Keywords: American Literature; Distant Political Theory; Real Terrain; Random Scene; American Space

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