Richard Godden

Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century

Punctuating Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

Addressing the emergence and decline of US Fordism, this volume examines how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives. It studies how the complexities of words and their histories derive from, and register, the organizing contradictions of an industrial economy, and of its failure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867759
• ISBN-10: 019286775X
• Artikelnr.: 67865117

Autorenporträt

Richard Godden is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Punctuating Capital: Toward a Labor Theory of Language
* 1: Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt
* 2: Fictions of Fictitious Capital: American Psycho and the Poetics of
Deregulation
* 3: Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit
Finance
* 4: No End to the Work? Jayne Anne Phillips and the Exquisite Corpse
of Southern Labor
* 5: Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite: Monetized War, Militarized
Money--a Narrative poetics for the Closing of an American Century
* 6: The Bodies in the Bubble: David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
* Afterword: What's in a Word?