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Fictions Inc.

Author : Ralph Clare
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813573637
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Fictions Inc. written by Ralph Clare and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation—Frank Norris’s The Octopus—Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from force to “individual,” and from American industry to multinational “Other.” Clare examines a variety of texts that span the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, including novels by Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, and Joshua Ferris; films such as Network, Ghostbusters, Gung Ho, Office Space, and Michael Clayton; and assorted artifacts of contemporary media such as television’s The Office and the comic strips Life Is Hell and Dilbert. Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of “corporate bodies,” Fictions Inc. shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend. Whether demonized or lionized, the corporation embodies American anxieties about these current conditions and ongoing fears about the viability of a capitalist system.

Economic Science Fictions

Author : William Davies
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1906897689
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Economic Science Fictions written by William Davies and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics. From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalize economic thinking. Rooted in the sense that our current economic reality is no longer credible or viable, this collection treats our economy as a series of fictions and science fiction as a means of anticipating different economic futures. It asks how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics and provides surprising new syntheses, merging social science with fiction, design with politics, scholarship with experimental forms. With an opening chapter from Ha-Joon Chang as well as theory, short stories, and reflections on design, this book from Goldsmiths Press challenges and changes the notion that economics and science fiction are worlds apart. The result is a wealth of fresh and unusual perspectives for anyone who believes the economy is too important to be left solely to economists. Contributors AUDINT, Khairani Barokka, Carina Brand, Ha-Joon Chang, Miriam Cherry, William Davies, Mark Fisher, Dan Gavshon-Brady and James Pockson, Owen Hatherley, Laura Horn, Tim Jackson, Mark Johnson, Bastien Kerspern, Nora O Murchú, Tobias Revell et al., Judy Thorne, Sherryl Vint, Joseph Walton, Brian Willems

States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions

Author : Melissa J. Durkee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009334719
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions written by Melissa J. Durkee and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new point of entry into questions about how the law conceives of states and firms. Because states and firms are fictitious constructs rather than products of evolutionary biology, the law dictates which acts should be attributed to each entity, and by which actors. Those legal decisions construct firms and states by attributing identity and consequences to them. As the volume shows, these legal decisions are often products of path dependence or conceptual metaphors like "personhood" that have expanded beyond their original uses. Focusing on attribution, the volume considers an array of questions about artificial entities that are usually divided into doctrinal siloes. These include questions about attribution of international legal responsibility to states and state-owned entities, transnational attribution of liabilities to firms, and attribution of identity rights to corporations. Durkee highlights the artificiality of doctrines that construct firms and states, and therefore their susceptibility to change.

Gedanken Fictions

Author : Thomas A. Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1587150697
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Gedanken Fictions written by Thomas A. Easton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction

Author : Paul Crosthwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499562
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction written by Paul Crosthwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes

Author : Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431719
Total Pages : 1607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes by : Patrick O'Donnell

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 1607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.

Disregard of the Corporate Fiction and Allied Corporation Problems

Author : Isaac Maurice Wormser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disregard of the Corporate Fiction and Allied Corporation Problems written by Isaac Maurice Wormser and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fact and Fiction

Author : John Hollowell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622882
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Fact and Fiction written by John Hollowell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalists and novelists responded to the pervasive social changes of the 1960s in America with a variety of experiments in nonfiction. Those who have praised the vitality of the new journalism have seen it as a fusion of the journalist's passion for detail and the novelist's moral vision. Hollowell presents a critically sharp portrait of what the new journalists and novelists are doing and why. The author concludes that future writing will further obscure the difference between fact and fiction. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Year's Best Science Fiction

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031294487X
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986-04 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction at its very best, this award-winning anthology features worksby the top sci fi writers of the year.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466829451
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1989-05-15 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year's edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction demonstrates once again why the anthology received the 1988 Locus Award for the best anthology in the field. Gardner Dozois presents the finest writing of the year, from both new writers and old favorites, including Walter Jon Williams, James Patrick Kelly, Brian Stableford, Steven Gould, Harry Turtledove, Eileen Gunn, Nancy Kress, Mike Resnick, Bruce McAllister, Connie Willis, Lewis Shiner, Judith Moffett, Bruce Sterling, Robert Silverberg, George Alec Effinger, Howard Waldrop, Kim Stanley Robinson, James Lawson, Michael Swanwick, John Kessel, Stephen Kraus, Pat Cadigan, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, D. Alexander Smith, Kathe Koja, Kim Newman, Lucius Shepard. Encompassing the entire genre, this year's edition once again brings you the best science fiction stories available anywhere. "Dozois's best-of-the-year collection has become a landmark of the genre."--Publishers Weekly

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312078919
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls 'the field's real anthology-of-record.' With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions. With the editor's annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765305343
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A written by Robert Silverberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries and marvels of the science fiction world are brought to life in this compilation of stories representing the work of major authors in this field.

Heavy Planet and Other Science Fiction Stories

Author : Milton A. Rothman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809515725
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Heavy Planet and Other Science Fiction Stories written by Milton A. Rothman and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton A. Rothman was best known to generations of science-fiction readers for a single classic story written at age 19: "Heavy Planet," published under the byline of "Lee Gregor" in 'Astounding Science Fiction' in 1939 at the beginning of the Golden Age and kept in print for decades in the classic anthology 'Adventures in Time and Space'. He was also a pioneer of early fandom, a founder of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, a fanzine publisher, and a World Science Fiction Convention chairman. After World War II, he became one of the country's leading nuclear physicists, but continued to write science fiction throughout his life. Here, for the first time, all his science fiction stories are collected in one volume, giving a clear picture of the author's development from youth to old age, reflecting lifelong preoccupations with physics, mathematics, music, the futility of war, and, of course, science fiction itself. Here is an authentic voice from the early years of the modern science fiction field. Features an introduction by science fiction master Frederik Pohl.

Passport Control

Author : Gila Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633200548
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Passport Control written by Gila Green and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765305372
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964 written by Robert Silverberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. Robert Heinlein in "The Roads Must Roll" describes an industrial civilization of the future caught up in the deadly flaws of its own complexity. "Country of the Kind," by Damon Knight, is a frightening portrayal of biological mutation. "Nightfall, " by Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest stories in the science fiction field, imagines a planet where the sun sets only once every millennium and is a chilling study in mass psychology.

Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Arthur M. Saltzman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512806684
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction written by Arthur M. Saltzman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Designs of Darkness, Arthur M. Saltzman examines some of the ways in which fiction has traditionally conspired to promote a goal-oriented vision of the work of art—and explores the ways in which postmodern (or postrealist) fiction consistently and unavoidably subverts the clarity of this vision. Offering readings of works by well-known authors, including Barthelme, Doctorow, DeLillo, and Hakes, as well as works by lesser-known writers (Auster, Gangemi), Saltzman concentrates on the breakdown of epiphany in recent fiction, both as philosophical motive and as structural foundation. In contemporary fiction, Saltzman contends, ambiguities blossom far beyond our capacities to stabilize, summarize, or restore them to sense. The old rules of the game—in which a reader looking for truth can expect come sort of satisfactory resolution—no longer apply. Literature now comes out of the answerless. Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction is a valuable new resource for scholars and students of contemporary literature.

Writing 21st Century Fiction

Author : Donald Maass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1599634007
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Writing 21st Century Fiction written by Donald Maass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture the minds, hearts, and imaginations of 21st century readers! Whether you're a commercial storyteller or a literary novelist, whether your goal is to write a best-selling novel or captivate readers with a satisfying, beautifully written story, the key to success is the same: high-impact fiction. Writing 21st Century Fiction will help you write a novel for today's readers and market, filled with rich characters, compelling plots, and resonant themes. Author and literary agent Donald Maass shows you how to: • Create fiction that transcends genre, conjures characters who look and feel more "real" than real people, and shows readers the work around them in new ways. • Infuse every page with an electric current of emotional appeal and micro-tension. • Harness the power of parallels, symbols, metaphors, and more to illuminate your novel in a lasting way. • Develop a personalized method of writing that works for you. With an arsenal of thought-provoking prompts and questions, plus plenty of examples from best-selling titles, Writing 21st Century Fiction will strip away your preconceived notions about writing in today's world and give you the essential tools you need to create fiction that will leave both readers and critics in awe.