TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Boever,Arne
TI  - Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis
SN  - 9780823279197
U1  - 813.0093553 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Money in literature
KW  - Finance in literature
KW  - Financial crises in literature
KW  - American fiction-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities -- 2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho -- 3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index -- 4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux) -- 5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist -- 6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner's 10:04 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
N2  - Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading
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