Tim Personn

Fictions of Proximity

Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus

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Produktbeschreibung

Fictions of Proximity explores the nexus of writers around David Foster Wallace who shaped a trend in literature the study calls the 'post-positivist novel.' It provides new readings of these writers, both of their canonical and lesser-known works, and situates them with respect to prominent figures in contemporary post-positivist philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9781666923186
• ISBN-10: 1666923184
• Artikelnr.: 69123502

Autorenporträt

By Tim Personn

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: David Foster Wallace at the End of History
Chapter 1: Varieties of Post-Positivism: Pragmatism and Romanticism
Chapter 2: "The Powerful, Dual-Functioning Part": Romantic Subjectivity in
David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's Signifying Rappers
Part II: Skepticism in Contemporary Fiction
Chapter 3: 'Looking' in 'Horror' or 'Ecstasy': Romantic Desire in David
Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress
Chapter 4: Brechtian Rhetoric and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Part III: Ironically Earnest, Earnestly Ironic: Fiction after Positivism
Chapter 5: Aporia in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Chapter 6: "The great unequivocal International Gestures": Benjaminian
Gestus in Zadie Smith's The Autograph Man
Epilogue: Breathing with Wallace
Bibliography
About the Author