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Finance Fictions : Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823279197
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Finance FictionsDDC classification:
  • 813.0093553
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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