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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford Universtiy Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Punctuating Finance Capital: A Comedy of Manners
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt
- 2 Fictions of Fictitious Capital
- 3 Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance
- 4 No End to the Work?
- 5 Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite
- 6 The Bodies in the Bubble
- Afterword What's in a Word?
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index