Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing"

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DFW had 9 books published at time of death. 3 story collections: GCH, BI, O; 4 nonfiction: Supposedly, Consider, Signifying, Everything and More; 2 novels: IJ, Broom. 3 posthumous: TPK, Flesh, This is Water (FTL not mentioned; doesn't count as a book I guess). many of the essays here are from the 2011 Wallace conference in Belgium, organized by Toon Staes.


        Boswell, M. (2014). Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing". In ? David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 6-22

a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)

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they necessarily make extensive use of synecdoche

quoting Edward Mendelson's essay on Gravity's Rainbow (p30)

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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels by Marshall Boswell

Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" by Marshall Boswell

synecdoche (en)

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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing"

by Marshall Boswell