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Creating Realities : Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865-1929 / Erhan Simsek.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Culture Studies ; 25Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783839447994
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.4093553 23/ger
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783839447994

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)

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