Creating Realities – Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Published:8th Dec '21
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Business is woven into the very fabric of American life, yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it proves an elusive motif that fails to mirror actual business organizations. This book argues that literary representations of business remain ineffable because business serves potential aesthetic functions, subtly yet meaningfully impacting readers. Exploring the complex representation of business in realist, naturalist and modernist works, Erhan Simsek reveals these functions by analyzing how the motif intertwines with social developments, literary movements and author biographies. He thus illuminates the motif itself while highlighting the utility of a focus on the changing functions of literature.
»The study presents a welcome contribution to the field and incidentally demonstrates why it is precisely literary scholars that should be writing about business.« Stefanie Müller, Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, 63 (2022) Besprochen in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 259/1 (2022), Kurt Müller
ISBN: 9783837647990
Dimensions: 226mm x 147mm x 15mm
Weight: 666g
256 pages