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The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction

Title
The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.
Author
Shonkwiler, Alison
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

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Description
xxxiii, 164 pages; 22 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Representing financial abstraction in fiction -- Virtue unrewarded: financial character in the economic novel -- Reagonomic realisms: real estate, character, and crisis in Jane Smiley's Good faith -- Epic compensations: corporate totality in Frank Norris's The octopus and Richard Powers's Gain -- Financial sublime: virtual capitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis -- Liquid realisms: global asymmetry and mediation in Teddy Wayne's Kapitoil and Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in raising Asia -- Epilogue: Literary realism and finance capital.
Call Number
JFD 17-576
ISBN
  • 9781517901516
  • 1517901510
  • 9781517901523
  • 1517901529
LCCN
2016022211
OCLC
957414102
Author
Shonkwiler, Alison, author.
Title
The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
JFD 17-576
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