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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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