The Financial Imaginary
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The Financial Imaginary
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Author : Alison Shonkwiler
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-02-14
The Financial Imaginary written by Alison Shonkwiler and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the emergence of new technologies pose a similar challenge to the one faced by American social realists a century ago: making the virtualization of capitalism legible within the conventions of the realist novel. In The Financial Imaginary, Alison Shonkwiler reads texts by Richard Powers, Don DeLillo, Jane Smiley, Teddy Wayne, and Mohsin Hamid to examine how fiction confronts the formal and representational mystifications of the economic. As Shonkwiler shows, these contemporary writers navigate the social, moral, and class preoccupations of American “economic fiction” (as shaped by such writers as William Dean Howells, Henry James, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser), even as they probe the novel’s inadequacies to tell the story of an increasingly abstract world system. Drawing a connection from historical and theoretical accounts of financialization to the formal contours of contemporary fiction, The Financial Imaginary examines the persistent yet vexed relationship between financial representation and the demands of literary realism. It argues that the novel is essential to understanding our relation to the mystifications of abstraction past and present.
The Financial Imaginary
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Financial Imaginary written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Capitalism in literature categories.
This dissertation examines the representation of capitalism as an abstract phenomenon in American literature at the beginning and end of the "long" twentieth century. Comparing the two most recent ends-of-century--both notorious for the promotion of "new" economic rules and extremes of wealth redistribution--allows us to chart writers' efforts to find formal strategies adequate to represent changing conditions of economic abstraction. Reading fictions from the period of the American "economic novel" from 1885 to 1912 by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, and from contemporary narratives of "late" capitalism from 1998 to 2003 by Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Jane Smiley, and David Denby, I show how texts from these two turns-of-century pose a question of parallel historical urgency: how to find new ways of seeing forces of capitalism that are thought to exceed conventional narrative powers of representation. The financial imaginary thus invites us to consider the novel's attempts--and its failures--to make late capitalism legible in realist terms. I consider how these texts historicize a particular view of late capital as able to evolve beyond its origins as "real" money and toward new levels of financial immateriality. Exploring the ways in which the representation of capital is reconceived in literature as a problem of historical perception and understanding rather than as an account of a system of material production, I argue that the "financialization" of the novel's imagination--an expansive projection of cause and effect through the abstract terms of the market--is a literary expression of and a response to the market's seeming ability to exceed social control. Just as late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century texts seek to define historically viable modes of financial selfhood, late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century texts allow us to track the ways that contemporary narrative returns to the preoccupations of the nineteenth-century economic novel even as it models the inadequacies of such fiction to tell the story of twentieth-century capitalism.
The Financial Gap Real Or Imaginary
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Author : Denver Research Institute
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Financial Gap Real Or Imaginary written by Denver Research Institute and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Finance categories.
The Imaginary
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Author : A.F. Harrold
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-23
The Imaginary written by A.F. Harrold and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Rudger is Amanda's best friend. He doesn't exist, but nobody's perfect. Only Amanda can see her imaginary friend – until the sinister Mr Bunting arrives at Amanda's door. Mr Bunting hunts imaginaries. Rumour says that he eats them. And he's sniffed out Rudger. Soon Rudger is alone, and running for his imaginary life. But can a boy who isn't there survive without a friend to dream him up? A brilliantly funny, scary and moving read from the unique imagination of A.F. Harrold, this beautiful book is astoundingly illustrated with integrated art and colour spreads by the award-winning Emily Gravett.
Early Modern Catalogues Of Imaginary Books
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Author : Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Early Modern Catalogues Of Imaginary Books written by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues presents a multitude of texts, from the genre’s beginnings (Rabelais’s satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700.
Envisioning The Economic Imaginary
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Author : Szu-Han Ho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Envisioning The Economic Imaginary written by Szu-Han Ho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art and society categories.
Cultures Of Financialization
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Author : M. Haiven
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-10
Cultures Of Financialization written by M. Haiven and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization argues that, in our age of crisis, the global economy is more invested than ever in culture and the imagination. We must take the idea of 'fictitious capital' seriously as a way to understand the power of finance, and what might be done to stop it.
The Market Logics Of Contemporary Fiction
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Author : Paul Crosthwaite
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-18
The Market Logics Of Contemporary Fiction written by Paul Crosthwaite and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.
Imaginary Cities
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Author : Darran Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-04-06
Imaginary Cities written by Darran Anderson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Architecture categories.
How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”
Imaginary Friend
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Author : Stephen Chbosky
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Imaginary Friend written by Stephen Chbosky and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Fiction categories.
'Astonishing ... Genius ... A masterpiece' EMMA WATSON 'Haunting and thrilling' JOHN GREEN, author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS * * * * * IMAGINE... Leaving your house in the middle of the night. Knowing your mother is doing her best, but she's just as scared as you. IMAGINE... Starting a new school, making friends. Seeing how happy it makes your mother. Hearing a voice, calling out to you. IMAGINE... Following the signs, into the woods. Going missing for six days. Remembering nothing about what happened. IMAGINE... Something that will change everything... And having to save everyone you love. * * * * * 'Unputdownable ... You'll fall in love with these characters. That's why they stay with you, like a haunting.' R. J. PALACIO, author of WONDER 'An extraordinary book. The pages practically turn themselves.' GREER HENDRICKS & SARAH PEKKANEN, authors of THE WIFE BETWEEN US 'A fearsome, remarkably ambitious novel that breaks through the boundaries of the genre to become epic - in all the best senses of the word." LINCOLN CHILD, #1 New York Times bestseller 'A simply extraordinary reading experience. Utterly unique. A tremendous read, every bit worth the wait.' BLAKE CROUCH, author of DARK MATTER