Simsek Creating Realities

Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4799-4
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 25, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: American Culture Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simsek, Erhan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Simsek, Erhan
Erhan Simsek (Dr.) teaches at Bielefeld University. His research interests include American literature, literary theory, and composition studies.