Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer

The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an ''aesthetic sea change'' in contemporary American literature. ''Post-postmodernism'' and ''New Sincerity'' are just two of the labels that have been attached to this trend. But what do these labels mean? What characterizes and connects these novels?

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