Scandals and abstraction : financial fiction of the long 1980s /

"The greed, excess, and decadence of the long 1980s has been famously chronicled, critiqued, and satirized in epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Leigh Claire La Berge offers an in-depth study of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: La Berge, Leigh Claire
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Temas:
1900-1999
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Money in literature.
Finance in literature.
Capitalism and literature.
Financial crises in literature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Capitalisme et littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents:
  • Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fictions of the Long 1980s
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don
  • DeLillo's White Noise
  • Chapter 2. Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash
  • and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone
  • Chapter 3. "The Men Who Make The Killings": American
  • Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography
  • Chapter 4. Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan
  • Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance
  • Coda.

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