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The Boy Inside the American Businessman

The Boy Inside the American Businessman : Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature.

・ISBN 978-0-8191-8750-5 paper US$ 64.99

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著者・編者Horner, Carl S.,
出版社(University Press of America, US)
出版年月1992
ページ数116 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<L25-30116>

解説

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.