David Foster Wallace and the Body

by Peter Sloane

Book Overview

David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author's works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a 'human being'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032092548
• ISBN13: 9781032092546
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"