TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simsek,Erhan
TI  - Creating Realities: Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865-1929 
T2  - American Culture Studies
SN  - 9783839447994
U1  - 813.4093553 23/ger
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - America
KW  - American History
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - Economy
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Social History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Loss of Reality in Late Nineteenth-Century America --; 2. Business in American Romance and Realism --; 3. The Realist Business in The Rise of Silas Lapham --; 4. The Naturalist Business in The Financier --; 5. Business in American Modernism --; Conclusion --; Works Cited; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447994?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839447994
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839447994/original
ER  -