{"product_id":"the-wallace-effect-marshall-boswell-9781501344947","title":"The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination","description":"\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marshall Boswell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501344943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501344947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Marshall Boswell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44064970080511,"sku":"9781501344947","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca383007-facd-482e-a08c-6df398ebdc69.jpg?v=1685398664","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wallace-effect-marshall-boswell-9781501344947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}