LEADER 04268nam 22006735 450 001 9910480201803321 005 20210715031136.0 010 $a0-8232-8143-4 010 $a0-8232-7919-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823279197 035 $a(CKB)4340000000252486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5247458 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001921799 035 $a(DE-B1597)555080 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823279197 035 $a(OCoLC)1021035705 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000252486 100 $a20200723h20182018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFinance Fictions $eRealism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis /$fArne De Boever 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-8232-7916-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities --$t2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho --$t3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index --$t4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux) --$t5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist --$t6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner?s 10:04 --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aFinance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis?s American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel that can make sense of complex financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists to work harder to ?tame the billion-footed beast of reality,? today?s economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons? Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy?an ?if? whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century. 606 $aMoney in literature 606 $aFinance in literature 606 $aFinancial crises in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aBiopolitics. 610 $aFinance Novels. 610 $aFinance. 610 $aMarxism. 610 $aNeoliberalism. 610 $aPopular fiction. 610 $aPsychosis. 610 $aRealism. 610 $aSpeculative Realism. 610 $aWall Street. 615 0$aMoney in literature. 615 0$aFinance in literature. 615 0$aFinancial crises in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.009/3553 700 $aDe Boever$b Arne$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01028454 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480201803321 996 $aFinance Fictions$92444475 997 $aUNINA