Boy Inside the American Businessman - Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature

This is a socio-economic study of twentieth-century American literature that reveals why mainstream businessmen must either discipline, suppress, or kill boyish tendencies that collide with do-or-die codes of the American corporate psychostructure. Contents: Competition, Expectation, and the American Corporate Psyche; Life-or-Death Dealing: Dress and Behavior Codes in American Business; Against the Fires of Ilium: Vonnegut's Restless Engineer in Player Piano; The Catcher in the Rye: Irreconcilable Tension in Salinger's Peter Pan; The Boy Inside the Salesman: "Tired to the Death" in Miller's Death of A Salesman; Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run; The Boy Inside Bob Slocum: The Ambiguity of "Death" by "Asphyxiation" in Heller's Something Happened; The Boy Inside the Banker; A Concluding Interview.

List of contents

Competition, expectation, and the American corporate psyche; life-or-death-dealing, dress and behaviour codes in American business; against the fires of Ilium - Vonnegut's restless engineer in player piano; "The Catcher in the Rye" - irreconcilable tension in Salinger's Peter Pan; the boy inside the salesman - "tired to the death", in Miller's "Death of a Salesman"; rabbit in the showroom - healthy, wealthy and no place left to run; the boy inside Bob Slocum - the ambiguity of "death" by "asphyxiation" in Heller's "Something Happened".

About the author

By Carl S. Horner

Summary

A socio-economic study of 20th-century American literature that reveals why mainstream businessmen must either discipline, suppress, or kill boyish tendencies that collide with do-or-die codes of the American corporate psychostructure.

Product details

• Authors: Carl S Horner, Carl S. Horner, Horner Carl S.
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.1992
• EAN: 9780819187499
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-8749-9
• No. of pages: 116
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Business & management, American English, Business studies: general, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Sociology & anthropology, Society and culture: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Sociology and anthropology