Paul Crosthwaite

Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108606691
• Artikelnr.: 70909974

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.