Fictions of finance at the end of an American century : punctuating capital /

Addressing the emergence and decline of US Fordism, this volume examines how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives. It studies how the complexities of words and their histories derive from, and register, the organizing contradictions of an industrial economy, and...

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Main Author: Godden, Richard, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Universtiy Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Addressing the emergence and decline of US Fordism, this volume examines how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives. It studies how the complexities of words and their histories derive from, and register, the organizing contradictions of an industrial economy, and of its failure.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.
ISBN:9780192693600
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