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  1. Scandals and abstraction
    financial fiction of the long 1980s
    Author: La Berge, Leigh Claire
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    "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"--... more

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    "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"-- "The greed, excess, and decadence of the long 1980s has been famously chronicled, critiqued, and satirized in epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Leigh Claire La Berge offers an in-depth study of these fictions alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them, contending that throughout the 1980s, novelists, journalists, and filmmakers began to reimagine the capitalist economy as one that was newly personal, masculine, and anxiety producing. The study's first half links the linguistic to the technological by exploring the arrival of ATMs and their ubiquity in postmodern American literature. In transformative readings of novels such as White Noise and American Psycho, La Berge traces how the ATM serves as a symbol of anxious isolation and the erosion of interpersonal communication. A subsequent chapter on Ellis' novel and Jane Smiley's Good Faith explores how male protagonists in each develop unique associations between money and masculinity. The second half of the monograph features chapters that attend to works-most notably Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities-that capture aspects of the arrogance and recklessness that led to the savings-and-loan crisis and the 1987 stock market crash. Concluding with a coda on the recent Occupy Wall Street Movement and four short stories written in its wake, Scandals and Abstraction demonstrates how economic forces continue to remain a powerful presence in today's fiction"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents: -- Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fictions of the Long 1980s -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don -- DeLillo's White Noise -- Chapter 2. Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash -- and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone -- Chapter 3. "The Men Who Make The Killings": American -- Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography -- Chapter 4. Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan -- Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance -- Coda.

     
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  2. Scandals and abstraction
    financial fiction of the long 1980s
    Author: La Berge, Leigh Claire
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 019937287X; 0199372888; 9780199372874; 9780199372881
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; Capitalism and literature; Finance in literature; Financial crises in literature; Money in literature; American fiction; Money in literature; Finance in literature; Capitalism and literature; Financial crises in literature; Kapitalismus <Motiv>; Literatur; Geld <Motiv>
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents: -- Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fictions of the Long 1980s -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don -- DeLillo's White Noise -- Chapter 2. Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash -- and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone -- Chapter 3. "The Men Who Make The Killings": American -- Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography -- Chapter 4. Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan -- Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance -- Coda

    "The greed, excess, and decadence of the long 1980s has been famously chronicled, critiqued, and satirized in epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Leigh Claire La Berge offers an in-depth study of these fictions alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them, contending that throughout the 1980s, novelists, journalists, and filmmakers began to reimagine the capitalist economy as one that was newly personal, masculine, and anxiety producing. The study's first half links the linguistic to the technological by exploring the arrival of ATMs and their ubiquity in postmodern American literature. In transformative readings of novels such as White Noise and American Psycho, La Berge traces how the ATM serves as a symbol of anxious isolation and the erosion of interpersonal communication. A subsequent chapter on Ellis' novel and Jane Smiley's Good Faith explores how male protagonists in each develop unique associations between money and masculinity. The second half of the monograph features chapters that attend to works-most notably Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities-that capture aspects of the arrogance and recklessness that led to the savings-and-loan crisis and the 1987 stock market crash. Concluding with a coda on the recent Occupy Wall Street Movement and four short stories written in its wake, Scandals and Abstraction demonstrates how economic forces continue to remain a powerful presence in today's fiction"--

    "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"--
  3. Scandals and Abstraction
    Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s
    Author: La Berge, Leigh Claire
    Published: 2014; ©2014
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Cary

    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.... more

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    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. Cover -- Scandals and Abstraction: financial fiction of the long 1980s -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Scandals and Abstraction -- Introduction -- The Situation -- The Economy, Finance, and Literary Criticism -- Beyond Homology or Determination: Contemporary Literary Scholarship -- Financial Form -- Chapter Summaries -- 1: Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don DeLillo's White Noise -- Personal Banking -- I. Postmodernism, Finance Capital, and the Automated Teller Machine -- II. Know Logo -- Conclusion -- 2: Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone -- Realist Subsumption -- The Economy of Realism -- "Today Was the Big Crash" -- 3: "The Men Who Make the Killings": American Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography -- The Art of the Deal -- Genre, Violence, and Value in 1980s Financial Print Culture -- The Men Who Make the Killings -- Financial Literary Devices -- Conclusion -- 4: Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance -- A Rolling Loan Gathers No Loss -- Writing about the Savings and Loan Crisis: The Descriptive Imperative -- Unreal Estate -- Conclusion -- Coda -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Coda -- Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199372881
    Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Money in literature; Finance in literature; Capitalism and literature; Financial crises in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (241 pages)
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