... systematically fails to translate non-English works into English, I argue that critiques of the whole literary field, based on the close reading of individual texts, overlook the systemic and institutional grounds of American unworldliness. David Foster Wallace’s 2004 novella, “The Suffering Channel,” offers...

...Mark McGurl This essay examines David Foster Wallace as a “program” writer in various senses, including as a graduate of a creative writing program and participant in twelve-step recovery programs. It argues that what makes Wallace most distinctive in literary historical terms is his rejection...

...J. T. Barbarese From the outset, Wallace Stevens’s reputation has proven a vexation for even supportive critics. While the New Critics wanted his work to look more high modernist than late Romantic, “Romantic-modernists,” resenting even the possibility that Romanticism was passé, argued...

...Henry Veggian “Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship and Exchange Value in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King ” considers the materiality of the printed book where postmodern theories of culture intersect with the contemporary economics of the print publishing, digital publishing, and antiquarian...

...Bradley J. Fest This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite...

...Mark Greif The category of the “big, ambitious novel,” circumscribing works by authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace, and William Vollmann, has come to constitute one of the major forms through which postwar U.S. fiction is sorted and evaluated. A history of this form...

...Ben Lerner This essay attempts to take the measure of Robert Creeley's some sixty-year commitment to poetry as a medium for tracking the processes of thinking and speaking, not for the production of finished thoughts. By reading Creeley against Wallace Stevens, I hope to both identify...

...Al Filreis What reputation and influence has Wallace Stevens had in the years since 1975? The infamous Stevensean disaffection has tended to prohibit definitive legacy, and yet this, in the end, has been productive, forestalling closed arguments among poetics Lefts and Rights, keeping Stevens's...

.... In this review essay of Badiou's recent collection, The Age of the Poets , I will scrutinize Badiou's readings of literature, and in particular his readings of Wallace Stevens, in order to pose a series of more general, interlinked questions. First, what are the strengths and limitations of recent Continental...

... Books Received Adorno, Theodor W. Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason.’ Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. Armbruster, Karla, and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds. Beyond Nature Writing: Expand- ing the Boundaries of Ecocriticism...

... in the context of our current political situa- tion, I am struck by the palpable presence of war in so much of their poetry and prose—especially in Williams and Wallace Stevens. While it’s rarely treated head-on, it permeates—or, like the rose in “Spring and All,” “pene- trates”—the “space” of their pages...

... to find him worth thinking about and writing about. In some ways, Wallace Stevens has been more important for me over the years than Williams. Stevens is an earlier interest, going back to graduate school. And he’s a different kind of challenge. What do you do with a poet who is conspicuously...

... (in Czechoslovakia and in Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party) had crumbled. His death was symptomatic of the collapse of community, both in the nar- row sense of friends, lovers, and companions, and in the broad, as the form of communal democracy espoused by Matthiessen disappeared. By 1950, the American popular...

... A Poetics of American Privacy: Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens (1923). Tseng 2000.5.26 09:03 OCV:1 2000 ...

... and the digital archive; Marjorie Perloff illuminates Susan Howe’s The Midnight; Jonathan Skinner writes on ecopoetics; Joyelle McSweeney takes on the poetics of disability, with special reference to Hannah Weiner; Al Filreis sur- veys Wallace Stevens’s post-’75 shadows; Jim Rosenberg assesses digital...

... Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing” (2014), and The Silence of Fallout (2013). He is also the author of a volume of poetry, The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015), and his poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Empty Mirror, PLINTH, Short Po(r)tions, Spork, and Verse. He blogs...

... Modern: A Meditation on Elegy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. After 1945: Latency as Origin of the Present. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. Heble, Ajay, and Rob Wallace, eds. People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now! Durham, NC: Duke University...

... Realism and the Representation of Xiaosan,” in the edited volume Television, Sex and Society (2012). Lee Konstantinou is an assistant professor in the English Department at the Uni- versity of Maryland, College Park. He coedited (with Samuel Cohen) the collection The Legacy of David Foster Wallace...

... minds Fletcher s own grip having something to do with how he measures the conditions of possibility in works that we live inside, the possible as given force and energy, an imagined thing encountered, worked on, sometimes evaded or fled from, an abstraction blooded, as a man by thought, in Wallace...

... MacKenzie has recently published articles in the Journal of Modern Literature and the Wallace Stevens Journal. Her essay ‘‘The Terror of Three’’ is forth- coming in the Ginko Tree Review. She has written the introduction to and coedited with Daniel T. O’Hara the Barnes and Noble Classics Edition...