David Foster Wallace's balancing books : : fictions of value / / Jeffrey Severs.
"Jeffrey Severs offers one of the first critical works that examines the entirety of David Foster Wallace's fiction rather than individual novels. Severs focuses his interpretation of Wallace's work on the author's interest in "value" understood in terms of the incalcul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Columbia University Press,, [2017] 2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a living transaction: value, ground, and balancing books
- Come to work: capitalist fantasies and the quest for balance in the broom of the system
- New deals: (the) depression and devaluation in the early stories
- Dei gratia: work ethic, grace, and giving in infinite jest
- Other math: human costs, fractional selves, and neoliberal crisis in brief interviews with hideous men
- His capital flush: despairing over work and value in oblivion
- E pluribus unum: ritual, currency, and the embodied values of the pale king
- Conclusion: in line for the cash register with Wallace.