{"product_id":"the-unspeakable-failures-of-david-foster-wallace-language-identity-and-resistance-9781501335846","title":"The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Clare Hayes-Brady\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction \u003ci\u003eversus \u003c\/i\u003enon-fiction, or pre- and post-\u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSituating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist\u003ci\u003e sui generis\u003c\/i\u003e, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087836668055,"sku":"9781501335846","price":4971.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501335846.webp?v=1767099074","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-unspeakable-failures-of-david-foster-wallace-language-identity-and-resistance-9781501335846","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}