The Boy Inside the American Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature
This is a socio-economic study of twentieth-century American literature that reveals why mainstream businessmen must either discipline, suppress, or kill boyish tendencies that collide with do-or-die codes of the American corporate psychostructure. Contents: Competition, Expectation, and the American Corporate Psyche; Life-or-Death Dealing: Dress and Behavior Codes in American Business; Against the Fires of Ilium: Vonnegut's Restless Engineer in Player Piano; The Catcher in the Rye: Irreconcilable Tension in Salinger's Peter Pan; The Boy Inside the Salesman: 'Tired to the Death' in Miller's Death of A Salesman; Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run; The Boy Inside Bob Slocum: The Ambiguity of 'Death' by 'Asphyxiation' in Heller's Something Happened; The Boy Inside the Banker; A Concluding Interview.
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The Boy Inside the American Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature
This is a socio-economic study of twentieth-century American literature that reveals why mainstream businessmen must either discipline, suppress, or kill boyish tendencies that collide with do-or-die codes of the American corporate psychostructure. Contents: Competition, Expectation, and the American Corporate Psyche; Life-or-Death Dealing: Dress and Behavior Codes in American Business; Against the Fires of Ilium: Vonnegut's Restless Engineer in Player Piano; The Catcher in the Rye: Irreconcilable Tension in Salinger's Peter Pan; The Boy Inside the Salesman: 'Tired to the Death' in Miller's Death of A Salesman; Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run; The Boy Inside Bob Slocum: The Ambiguity of 'Death' by 'Asphyxiation' in Heller's Something Happened; The Boy Inside the Banker; A Concluding Interview.
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ISBN-13: | 9780819187505 |
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Publisher: | University Press of America |
Publication date: | 09/11/1992 |
Pages: | 116 |
Product dimensions: | 5.32(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.36(d) |
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