The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781108499569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 316 str.

Paul Crosthwaite

Opis

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

Recenzje

'The most striking aspect of Crosthwaite's latest monograph is the delicate balancing of complex interpretations of the relationship between fiction and the market … The result of Crosthwaite's success in negotiating this balance is that Market Logics is an attractive and engaging read for both newcomers to the economic humanities and experts alike … As a whole, Market Logics appeals to both ends of the academic spectrum, and excels in providing rigorous criticism … without excluding newer scholars from its argumentative process.' Amy Bride, U.S. Studies Online

Spis treści

Introduction: neoliberalism, financialization, and the contemporary literary marketplace; Part I. The Emergence of Market Metafiction: 1. Market metafiction and the varieties of postmodernism; Part II. The Phantasmagorias of Contemporary Finance: 2. Trading in the as if: fiduciary exchangeability and supernatural financial fiction; 3. 'The occult logic of 'market forces'': Iain Sinclair's post-Big Bang London; Part III. The Market Knows: 4. The price is right: market epistemology, narrative totality, and the 'big novel'; 5. Fully reflecting: knowing the mind of the market in DeLillo and Kunzru; 6. Putting everything on the table: markets and material conditions in twenty-first-century fiction; 7. Between autonomy and heteronomy: exchanging capital in Zink, Cohen, and Heti; Coda: basic income, or, why Barbara Browning's The Gift is not a gift.