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David Foster Wallace's balancing books: fictions of value

By David Foster , SEVERS , Jeffrey;Wallace

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780231179447, 9780231543118, 0231543115
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2653386 bytes)
Series
Columbia scholarship online
Pages
\324
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
CriticismDavid FosterDavid Foster -- Criticism and interpretation;Wallaetc;Wallaceinterpretation

Description

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.

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