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Author: Michael W. Clune Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 113948463X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 221
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The years after World War Two have seen a widespread fascination with the free market. In this book, Michael W. Clune considers this fascination in postwar literature. In the fictional worlds created by works ranging from Frank O'Hara's poetry to nineties gangster rap, the market is transformed, offering an alternative form of life, distinct from both the social visions of the left and the individualist ethos of the right. These ideas also provide an unsettling example of how art takes on social power by offering an escape from society. American Literature and the Free Market presents a new perspective on a number of wide ranging works for readers of American post-war literature.
Author: Lee Trepanier Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739194755 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 167
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Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, there has been and continues to be a debate about the proper role of the free market in the United States and beyond. On one side there are those who defend the free market as a method to provide both wealth and democratic legitimacy; while on the other side are thinkers who reject the orthodoxy of the free market and call for a greater role of government in society to correct its failures. But what is needed in this debate is a return to the vantage point of the human condition to better understand both the free market and our role in it. The Free Market and the Human Condition explores what the human condition can reveal to us about the free market—its strengths, its limits, and its weaknesses—and, in turn, what the free market can illuminate about the essence of the human condition. Because the human condition is multifaceted, this book has adopted an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon the disciplines of philosophy, theology, archeology, literature, sociology, political science, criminal justice, and education. Since it is impossible for one to know all aspects of the human condition, the book consists of contributors who approach the topic from their respective disciplines, thereby providing an accumulated picture of the free market and the human condition. Although it does not claim to provide a comprehensive account of the human condition as situated in the free market, The Free Market and the Human Condition transcends the current climate of debate about the free market and provides a way forward in our understanding about the role that free market plays in our society.
Author: Alexander Menrisky Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108842569 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 265
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Examines how interactions between ecology and psychoanalysis shifted the focus of the American wilderness narrative from environment to identity.
Author: Owen Clayton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009348078 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 359
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The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
Author: Paul Crosthwaite Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108499562 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 319
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Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.
Author: Gavin Jones Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107056675 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 205
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By exploring the aberrant literary styles of nineteenth-century American writers, Jones suggests failure is just as important as 'success' in US national experience.
Author: Mark Noble Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107084504 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 243
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In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.
Author: Michael W. Clune
Author: Michael W. Clune
Author: Michael W. Clune
Author: Lee Trepanier
Author: Alexander Menrisky
Author: Owen Clayton
Author: Paul Crosthwaite
Author: Rob Turner
Author: Joanna Freer
Author: Gavin Jones
Author: Mark Noble