Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s by Leigh Claire La

Description: Scandals and Abstraction by Leigh Claire La Berge Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Scandals and Abstraction offers an in-depth study of epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfes The Bonfire of the Vanities, alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them. Publisher Description The Long 1980s could be summed up handily in the annals of U.S. cultural history with the enduring markers of Ronald Reagans presidency, Oliver Stones film Wall Street, and Dire Straitss hit single "Money for Nothing." Despite their vast differences, each serves to underscore the confidence, jingoism, and optimism that powered the U.S. economy throughout the decade. Mining a wide range of literature, film, and financial print journalism, Scandalsand Abstraction chronicles how American societys increasing concern with finance found expression in a large array of cultural materials that ultimately became synonymous with postmodernism.The ever-present credit cards, monetary transactions, and ATMs in Don De Lillos White Noise open this study as they serve as touchstones for its protagonists sense of white masculinity and ground the novels narrative form. Tom Wolfes The Bonfire of the Vanities and Oliver Stones Wall Street animate a subsequent chapter, as each is considered in light of the 1987 stock market crash and held up as a harbinger of a radical new realism thatclaimed a narrative monopoly on representing an emergent financial era. These works give way to the pornographic excess and violence of Bret Easton Elliss epochal American Psycho, which is read alongside the popular 1980s genre ofthe financial autobiography. With a series of trenchant readings, La Berge argues that Elliss novel can be best understood when examined alongside Ivan Boeskys Merger Mania, Donald Trumps The Art of the Deal, and T. Boone Pickenss Boone. A look at Jane Smileys Good Faith and its plot surrounding the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, concludes the study, and considers how financial reportage became a template for much of our current writingabout of finance.Drawing on a diverse archive of novels, films, autobiographies, and journalism, Scandals and Abstraction provides a timely study of the economys influence on fiction, and outlines a feedback loopwhereby postmodernism became more canonical, realism became more postmodern, and finance became a distinct cultural object. Author Biography Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York and the coeditor, with Alison Shonkwiler, of Reading Capitalist Realism. Details ISBN 019937287X ISBN-13 9780199372874 Title Scandals and Abstraction Author Leigh Claire La Berge Format Hardcover Year 2015 Pages 240 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:137032058; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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