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Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities
2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho
3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index
4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux)
5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist
6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner’s 10:04
Conclusion: Economic Defense Systems; Or: On Financial Immunity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Finance Fictions

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 6 March 2018
      ISBN-13 9780823279173
      978-0823279173
      ISBN-10 0823279170
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities
      2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho
      3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index
      4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux)
      5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist
      6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner’s 10:04
      Conclusion: Economic Defense Systems; Or: On Financial Immunity
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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