Table of Contents
Part 1 Materials
Introduction 3
Novels and Short Fiction 3
Nonaction and Reviews 4
Readings for Students 5
The Instructor's Library 6
Part 2 Approaches
Introduction 13
Teaching Key Works and Genres
Teaching Infinite Jest Marshall Boswell 22
Last Words: Teaching The Pale King Stephen J. Burn 33
Teaching Wallace's Short Fiction Philip Coleman 42
Teaching Wallace's Pop Criticism Matthew Luter 52
Classroom Contexts
Infinite Unrest: "Octet,"' High School, and the Revolving Door of Metanarrative Mike Miley 59
Considering Composition: Teaching Wallace in the First-Year Writing Classroom Mark Bresnan 68
Wallaceward the American Literature Survey Course Takes Its Way Ralph Clare 75
Wallace as Major Author: Teaching the Oeuvre Jeffrey Severs 85
Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick 94
Wallace and Literary History: Influences and Intertexts
After Deconstruction: Wallace's New Realism Mary K. Holland 101
Beyond the Limit: Teaching Wallace and the Systems Novel Patrick O'Donnell 113
Twenty-First-Century Wallace: Teaching Wallace amid His Contemporaries Robert L. McLaughlin 123
Wallace and World Literature Lucas Thompson 132
Intellectual and Social Contexts
Early Wallace and Program Culture Andrew Warren 144
Wallace and Philosophy Allard den Dulk 155
Desire, Self, and Other; Wallace and Gender Hamilton Carroll 169
Can Empathy Be Taught? Wallace's Literary Ethics Matthew Mullins 180
Notes on Contributors 187
Survey Participants 191
Works Cited 193