NP Lit-Crit Abstract: Anachronisms in DFW's The Pale King

[Fiona Shnapple]

Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David
Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

Henry Veggian

Abstract

Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship and Exchange Value in David
Foster Wallace’s The Pale King” considers the materiality of the
printed book where postmodern theories of culture intersect with the
contemporary economics of the print publishing, digital publishing,
and antiquarian book industries. The essay elaborates Karl Marx’s
writings on exchange value in relation to more recent works of
historical-materialist writing by Fredric Jameson, Terry Cochran, and
others to build a frame for a reconsideration of Wallace’s incomplete
and posthumous novel, thereby proposing a premise for renewed analyses
of the contemporary writer and the printed book.
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