American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000

Informationen zum Autor Michael W. Clune is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Florida. Klappentext Considers the fascination with the free market and the economic world evident within postwar literature. Zusammenfassung The years after World War Two have seen a widespread fascination with the free market! going beyond individualism in expressing a desire for an entirely economic world. In this book! Michael W. Clune considers this fascination evident within postwar literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: the economic fiction; 1. Freedom from you; 2. Frank O'Hara and free choice; 3. William Burroughs' virtual mind; 4. Blood money: sovereignty and exchange in Kathy Acker; 5. 'You Can't See Me': rap, money, and the first person; Conclusion: the invisible world; Bibliography; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Clune, Michael W Clune, Michael W. Clune, Michael W. (Case Western Reserve University Clune
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521513999
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51399-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies