Richard Godden is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.

Punctuating Capital represents a vital intervention in debates about literatureâs critical purchase on contemporary financialisaton...By drawing out the connections between Marxâs dialectical theory of production and Bakhtinâs dialogic theory of language the work apprehends the âmaterial record of the interrupted rhythmsâ of productive labour in the very structures of the sentence itself. Written in Goddenâs inimitably sophisticated but engaging style the work offers us a new and necessary historical arc for understanding fictionâs apprehension of late twentieth century economic crises. A painstakingly elegant parsing of writers, including Brett Easton Ellis, Jayne Anne Phillips and David Foster Wallace, reinforces the political power of close critique.

• Introduction: Punctuating Capital: Toward a Labor Theory of Language 1: Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt 2: Fictions of Fictitious Capital: American Psycho and the Poetics of Deregulation 3: Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance 4: No End to the Work? Jayne Anne Phillips and the Exquisite Corpse of Southern Labor 5: Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetized War, Militarized Money--a Narrative poetics for the Closing of an American Century 6: The Bodies in the Bubble: David Foster Wallace's The Pale King Afterword: What's in a Word?

Richard Godden is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.

Punctuating Capital represents a vital intervention in debates about literatureâs critical purchase on contemporary financialisaton...By drawing out the connections between Marxâs dialectical theory of production and Bakhtinâs dialogic theory of language the work apprehends the âmaterial record of the interrupted rhythmsâ of productive labour in the very structures of the sentence itself. Written in Goddenâs inimitably sophisticated but engaging style the work offers us a new and necessary historical arc for understanding fictionâs apprehension of late twentieth century economic crises. A painstakingly elegant parsing of writers, including Brett Easton Ellis, Jayne Anne Phillips and David Foster Wallace, reinforces the political power of close critique.

• Introduction: Punctuating Capital: Toward a Labor Theory of Language 1: Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt 2: Fictions of Fictitious Capital: American Psycho and the Poetics of Deregulation 3: Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance 4: No End to the Work? Jayne Anne Phillips and the Exquisite Corpse of Southern Labor 5: Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetized War, Militarized Money--a Narrative poetics for the Closing of an American Century 6: The Bodies in the Bubble: David Foster Wallace's The Pale King Afterword: What's in a Word?

Richard Godden is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.

Punctuating Capital represents a vital intervention in debates about literatureâs critical purchase on contemporary financialisaton...By drawing out the connections between Marxâs dialectical theory of production and Bakhtinâs dialogic theory of language the work apprehends the âmaterial record of the interrupted rhythmsâ of productive labour in the very structures of the sentence itself. Written in Goddenâs inimitably sophisticated but engaging style the work offers us a new and necessary historical arc for understanding fictionâs apprehension of late twentieth century economic crises. A painstakingly elegant parsing of writers, including Brett Easton Ellis, Jayne Anne Phillips and David Foster Wallace, reinforces the political power of close critique.

• Introduction: Punctuating Capital: Toward a Labor Theory of Language 1: Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt 2: Fictions of Fictitious Capital: American Psycho and the Poetics of Deregulation 3: Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance 4: No End to the Work? Jayne Anne Phillips and the Exquisite Corpse of Southern Labor 5: Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetized War, Militarized Money--a Narrative poetics for the Closing of an American Century 6: The Bodies in the Bubble: David Foster Wallace's The Pale King Afterword: What's in a Word?