David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books : : Fictions of Value / / Jeffrey Severs.
What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving it beyond an emotionless...
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Severs, Jeffrey, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books : Fictions of Value / Jeffrey Severs. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016] ©2017 1 online resource (328 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Note on the Texts -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: A LIVING TRANSACTION: VALUE, GROUND, AND BALANCING BOOKS -- 1. COME TO WORK: CAPITALIST FANTASIES AND THE QUEST FOR BALANCE IN THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM -- 2. NEW DEALS: (THE) DEPRESSION AND DEVALUATION IN THE EARLY STORIES -- 3. DEI GRATIA : WORK ETHIC, GRACE, AND GIVING IN INFINITE JEST -- 4. OTHER MATH: HUMAN COSTS, FRACTIONAL SELVES, AND NEOLIBERAL CRISIS IN BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN -- 5. HIS CAPITAL FLUSH: DESPAIRING OVER WORK AND VALUE IN OBLIVION -- 6. E PLURIBUS UNUM : RITUAL, CURRENCY, AND THE EMBODIED VALUES OF THE PALE KING -- CONCLUSION: IN LINE FOR THE CASH REGISTER WITH WALLACE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What do we value? Why do we value it? And in a neoliberal age, can morality ever displace money as the primary means of defining value? These are the questions that drove David Foster Wallace, a writer widely credited with changing the face of contemporary fiction and moving it beyond an emotionless postmodern irony. Jeffrey Severs argues in David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books that Wallace was also deeply engaged with the social, political, and economic issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A rebellious economic thinker, Wallace satirized the deforming effects of money, questioned the logic of the monetary system, and saw the world through the lens of value's many hidden and untapped meanings. In original readings of all of Wallace's fiction, from The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest to his story collections and The Pale King, Severs reveals Wallace to be a thoroughly political writer whose works provide an often surreal history of financial crises and economic policies.As Severs demonstrates, the concept of value occupied the intersection of Wallace's major interests: economics, work, metaphysics, mathematics, and morality. Severs ranges from the Great Depression and the New Deal to the realms of finance, insurance, and taxation to detail Wallace's quest for balance and grace in a world of excess and entropy. Wallace showed characters struggling to place two feet on the ground and restlessly sought to "balance the books" of a chaotic culture. Explaining why Wallace's work has galvanized a new phase in contemporary global literature, Severs draws connections to key Wallace forerunners Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gaddis, as well as his successors-including Dave Eggers, Teddy Wayne, Jonathan Lethem, and Zadie Smith-interpreting Wallace's legacy in terms of finance, the gift, and office life. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543308 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016 9783110485264 ZDB-23-DKU print 9780231179447 https://doi.org/10.7312/seve17944 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231543118 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231543118/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Note on the Texts -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: A LIVING TRANSACTION: VALUE, GROUND, AND BALANCING BOOKS -- 1. COME TO WORK: CAPITALIST FANTASIES AND THE QUEST FOR BALANCE IN THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM -- 2. NEW DEALS: (THE) DEPRESSION AND DEVALUATION IN THE EARLY STORIES -- 3. DEI GRATIA : WORK ETHIC, GRACE, AND GIVING IN INFINITE JEST -- 4. OTHER MATH: HUMAN COSTS, FRACTIONAL SELVES, AND NEOLIBERAL CRISIS IN BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN -- 5. HIS CAPITAL FLUSH: DESPAIRING OVER WORK AND VALUE IN OBLIVION -- 6. E PLURIBUS UNUM : RITUAL, CURRENCY, AND THE EMBODIED VALUES OF THE PALE KING -- CONCLUSION: IN LINE FOR THE CASH REGISTER WITH WALLACE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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