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Autore |
Shonkwiler Alison |
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The Financial Imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction / / Alison Shonkwiler |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Realism in literature |
Finance in literature |
Money in literature |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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