David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: a Reader's Guide

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Title Page; Copyright; Reprint permissions; Contents; Preface; chronology; Chapter 1 Infinite Jest and the twentieth century: David Foster Wallace's legacy; Chapter 2 Problems in David Foster Wallace's poetics; Chapter 3 The novel; "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect" (991n. 24); "The Unfortunate Case of Me" (993n. 24); "No Troy" (990n. 24); "Insubstantial Country" (992n. 24); "Tennis, Everyone?" (986n. 24); Epilogue; Infinite test: Everything and More; Wallace in the shadow of no towers: Oblivion; Last words: The Pale King; Appendix; Notes; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3.;Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a ""three-stage rocket to the future, "" a work ""equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life, "" while Time Magazine included Infinite Jest on its list of 100 Gr. Title Page Copyright Reprint permissions Contents Preface chronology Chapter 1 Infinite Jest and the twentieth century: David Foster Wallace's legacy Chapter 2 Problems in David Foster Wallace's poetics Chapter 3 The novel "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect" (991n. 24) "The Unfortunate Case of Me" (993n. 24) "No Troy" (990n. 24) "Insubstantial Country" (992n. 24) "Tennis, Everyone?" (986n. 24) Epilogue Infinite test: Everything and More Wallace in the shadow of no towers: Oblivion Last words: The Pale King Appendix Notes CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3.