The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction
Author:   Alison Shonkwiler
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:  

9781517901523


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   14 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction


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Drawing aconnection from historical and theoretical accounts of financialization to theformal contours of contemporary fiction, The Financial Imaginaryexamines the persistent yet vexed relationship between financial representationand the demands of literary realism. Alison Shonkwiler argues that the novel isessential to understanding our relation to the mystifications of abstractionpast and present.

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Author:   Alison Shonkwiler
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781517901523


ISBN 10:   1517901529
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   14 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Representing Financial Abstraction in Fiction 1. Virtue Unrewarded: Financial Character in the Economic Novel 2. Reagonomic Realisms: Real Estate, Character, and Crisis in Jane Smiley’s Good Faith 3. Epic Compensations: Corporate Totality in Frank Norris’s The Octopus and Richard Powers’s Gain 4. Financial Sublime: Virtual Capitalism in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis 5. Liquid Realisms: Global Asymmetry and Mediation in Teddy Wayne’s Kapitoil and Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Epilogue: Literary Realism and Finance Capital Notes Index

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A brilliant intervention into several vital conversations about contemporary American literature and culture, <i>The Financial Imaginary</i> offers a swift, compelling, and sharply analytic account of the processes characterizing finance capitalism. Alison Shonkwiler makes her case forcefully and advances many daringly original interpretations. Caren Irr, Brandeis University</p>


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Alison Shonkwiler is associate professor of English at Rhode Island College and coeditor of Reading Capitalist Realism.

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