Stephen Burn

Collection of interviews that profiles Wallace's career of twenty years, from 1987 until his suicide in 2008, that provides insight into his development as a writer and complicated persona.

Conversations with David Foster Wallace

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.

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

D. Kaufman

Metropolitan Toronto (Ont.). Department of Roads and Traffic. Traffic Branch

University of Waterloo. Department of Co-Ordination and Placement

University of Waterloo. Department of Civil Engineering

Impact Study of the W.R. Allen Road Extension

Peter Dempsey

Since his first novel was published in 1985, Richard Powers has assembled a body of work whose intellectual breadth and imaginative energy bears comparison with that of any writer working today. Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers pays tribute to that achievement by collecting seventeen essays--written by leading literary critics, philosophers, and a novelist--each of which offers important insights into Powers's narrative craft and the intellectual grids that underlie his work. Powers's novels are distinguished by both their multiple narrative forms and their sophisticated synthesis of diverse fields of knowledge; to attempt to adequately address this range, the contributors to this volume mix their study of Powers's narrative innovations with eclectic interdisciplinary perspectives, which range from photography and systems theory, to ecocriticism and neuroscience. The volume concludes with an essay by Powers himself, that explores his philosophy of the novel.

Essays on Richard Powers

Intersections

Mary K. Holland

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the works of David Foster Wallace�s novels, short stories, and essays. Includes considerations of Wallace�s literary techniques, philosophy, and literary ethics. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature surveys, first-year composition courses, world-literature surveys, and high school courses.

Stephen Burn

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