David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide - Brossura

Burn, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 082641477X ISBN 13: 9780826414779

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2003

Riassunto

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

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Recensione:

A brilliant idea--short, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around today --Time Out (London) on January 30, 2001

'a bit like having a reading group in your pocket. Ian Rankin The series comes as near to squaring various circles - popular / academic, 'good read' / 'classic Lit', novel / film of the book as any I know. And at best it goes a fair way towards reshuffling those categories and redrawing the boundaries. With the first volume, I was relieved. After two or three, I was hooked. The books are invaluable for gathering out-of-the-way or ephemeral comment from TV and radio interviews and the web as well as from literary reviews. Refreshingly upfront and up-to-date... Highly finished and pleasantly handleable as books in their own right... ' --The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002

L'autore:

Stephen J. Burn is Associate Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA. He is author of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Continuum 2003) and co-editor of Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008).

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 082641477X
• ISBN 13: 9780826414779
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96