Title:
Both flesh and not : essays / David Foster Wallace.
Author:
Wallace, David Foster.
Genre:
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Call Number:
PS3573 .A425635 B58 2012
Abstract:
"Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time. Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; Terminator 2 and The Best of the Prose Poem; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated novels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more. Both Flesh and Not restores Wallace's essays as originally written, and it includes a selection from his personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions."--Publisher's description.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780316182379
9780316224116
Physical Description:
vii, 328 pages ; 22 cm
Subject Term:
Contents:
Federer both flesh and not -- Fictional futures and the conspicuously young -- The empty plenum : David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress -- Mr. Cogito -- Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open -- Back in new fire -- The (as it were) seminal importance of Terminator 2 -- The nature of the fun -- Overlooked : five direly underappreciated U.S. novels> 1960 -- Rhetoric and the math melodrama -- The best of the prose poem -- Twenty-four word notes -- Borges on the couch -- Deciderization 2007 : a special report -- Just asking.
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