Paul Crosthwaite

The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781108499569
• ISBN-10: 1108499562
• Artikelnr.: 56032666

Autorenporträt

Paul Crosthwaite is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: neoliberalism, financialization, and the contemporary
literary marketplace; Part I. The Emergence of Market Metafiction: 1.
Market metafiction and the varieties of postmodernism; Part II. The
Phantasmagorias of Contemporary Finance: 2. Trading in the as if: fiduciary
exchangeability and supernatural financial fiction; 3. 'The occult logic of
'market forces'': Iain Sinclair's post-Big Bang London; Part III. The
Market Knows: 4. The price is right: market epistemology, narrative
totality, and the 'big novel'; 5. Fully reflecting: knowing the mind of the
market in DeLillo and Kunzru; 6. Putting everything on the table: markets
and material conditions in twenty-first-century fiction; 7. Between
autonomy and heteronomy: exchanging capital in Zink, Cohen, and Heti; Coda:
basic income, or, why Barbara Browning's The Gift is not a gift.