A01=Carl S. Horner
Author_Carl S. Horner
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Product details
- ISBN 9780819187505
- Weight: 154g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 1992
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Carl S. Horner is Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
