Scandals and Abstraction - Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s

Zusatztext For the economists Kiyotaki and Moore, money is 'strange stuff.' Financial monies, in the apparent opacity of their workings, seem yet stranger. La Berge brings clarity to the financial turn by way of the founding assumption that the material practices of an economy Informationen zum Autor Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at St. Mary's University. Klappentext Scandals and Abstraction offers an in-depth study of epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them. Zusammenfassung Scandals and Abstraction offers an in-depth study of epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: La Berge, Leigh Claire La Berge, Leigh Claire (Assistant Professor of Eng La Berge, La Berge Leigh Claire
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780199372874
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937287-4
• Pagine: 240
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form