The Broom of the System | Techniques
Wallace's aesthetic ideas regarding the purpose of the novel fuse with his stylistic strategies. In fact, Wallace deploys literary techniques only in the service of his novels' central concern of writer-reader communication— excepting, perhaps, for some of his more overdetermined gags! Wallace's novels are at times less novels than they are composites of fragmented discourse. The Broom of the System itself is comprised of hospital duty logs, an evangelical Christian television show dialogue, journal entries, transcripts of meetings between politicians, transcripts of...
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