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

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"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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Main Author: La Berge, Leigh Claire (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Money in literature.
Finance in literature.
Capitalism and literature.
Financial crises in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction.
Literatur.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Geld.
Kapitalismus.
Amerikanska romaner > historia.
Pengar i litteraturen.
Finanskriser i litteraturen.
Kapitalism i litteraturen.
1900-1999
1900-talet
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don DeLillo's White Noise
  • 2. Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone
  • 3. "The Men Who Make The Killings": American Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography
  • 4. Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance
  • Coda.