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Fictions of Management : Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture.
From the organization of private businesses and public services to the optimization of everyday life, management is a ubiquitous term today. Denoting efficiency and control, management has become a catchall term for successful living in neoliberal times. The term is so ubiquitous that it often avoid...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2019.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Management, culture, society / James Dorson and Jasper J. Verlinden
- Pietist self-management in the eighteenth century: From individual reform to the social marketplace / Philipp Reisner
- The critique of proslavery ideology in David Walker's Appeal / Scott Henkel
- Self-help and/in mass cultures: Performatives of (self-)management and race between 1890 and 1930 / Kristina Graaff and Martin Klepper
- Managing "The city wilderness": Late nineteenth-century settlement fiction / Katharina Metz
- Romancing finance: "Animal spirits" in John Maynard Keynes, Neoclassical economics, and Frank Norris's The pit / Carolin Benack
- Reproduction lines: Feminism, management, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Ben Nichols
- Flow management: Jack London and efficient living in the progressive era / James Dorson
- Life on the collar line: Discontent, nostalgia, and the professional-mangerial class in 1950s fiction / Simone Knewitz
- Edgy time, empty time, and time management in David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest and The pale king / Nicola Glaubitz
- The dinosaur in the room: Bringing the ENRON scandal to the stage / Birte Wege
- Macintosh HD > User > Documents > Melodrama > PowerPoint > Jennifer Egan.pptx / Rieke Jordan
- Can a writer critique Uber? The gig economy, creative labor, and Ben Lerner's "The Polish rider" / David Hadar.