The 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.

About the author

Carl S. Horner is Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

Product details

• Authors: Carl S. Horner, Horner Carl S.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.1992
• EAN: 9780819187505
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-8750-5
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 154 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 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