Review
"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.
"Burn does a terrific job of placing "Infinite Jest" in the tradition of the encyclopedic novel, explaining the novel's chronology, and demonstrating the subtle points of intersection and narrative intertwining among the many plots. It is in making the case for the novel's careful structure that this study is most valuable...(Burn's David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest": A Reader's Guide) offers more than its size promises." -Robert L. McLaughlin in Review of Contemporary Fiction (Robert L. McLaughlin )
"Burn does a terrific job of placing Infinite Jest in the tradition of the encyclopedic novel, explaining the novel's chronology, and demonstrating the subtle points of intersection and narrative intertwining among the many plots." -Robert L. McLaughlin, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2004
"Burn does a terrific job of placing "Infinite Jest" in the tradition of the encyclopedic novel, explaining the novel's chronology, and demonstrating the subtle points of intersection and narrative intertwining among the many plots. It is in making the case for the novel's careful structure that this study is most valuable...(Burn's David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest": A Reader's Guide) offers more than its size promises." -Robert L. McLaughlin in Review of Contemporary Fiction (, )
"Burn does a terrific job of placing "Infinite Jest" in the tradition of the encyclopedic novel, explaining the novel's chronology, and demonstrating the subtle points of intersection and narrative intertwining among the many plots. It is in making the case for the novel's careful structure that this study is most valuable...(Burn's David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest": A Reader's Guide) offers more than its size promises." -Robert L. McLaughlin in Review of Contemporary Fiction (Robert L. McLaughlin )
"Burn does a terrific job of placing Infinite Jest in the tradition of the encyclopedic novel, explaining the novel's chronology, and demonstrating the subtle points of intersection and narrative intertwining among the many plots." -Robert L. McLaughlin, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2004
"Burn does a terrific job of placing "Infinite Jest" in the tradition of the encyclopedic novel, explaining the novel's chronology, and demonstrating the subtle points of intersection and narrative intertwining among the many plots. It is in making the case for the novel's careful structure that this study is most valuable...(Burn's David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest": A Reader's Guide) offers more than its size promises." -Robert L. McLaughlin in Review of Contemporary Fiction (, )
Book Description
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.
About the Author
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).
