Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education
Subtitle: International Perspectives (Radical Forum on Adult Education Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780415005661
Subjects: Correspondence Schools; Education Of Women; Education
Description: "David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace's career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author's works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a 'human being'. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire 'to be reconciled'"--