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

Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature

By: Carl S. Horner

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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.

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Carl Horner's study contributes significantly to our understanding of the fictional presentation of the American male and to our awareness of the complexity of the male corporate ideal.--Sarah Gordon, Georgia College

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Competition, Expectation, and the American Corporate Psyche	p. 7
Life-Or-Death-Dealing Dress and Behavior Codes in American Business	p. 21
Against the Fires of Ilium: Vonnegut's Restless Engineer in Player Piano	p. 35
The Catcher in the Rye: Irreconcilable Tension in Salinger's Peter Pan	p. 43
The Boy Inside the Salesman: "Tired to the Death" In Miller's Death of a Salesman	p. 47
Rabbit in the Showroom: Healthy, Wealthy, and No Place Left to Run	p. 61
The Boy Inside Bob Slocum: The Ambiguity of "Death" By "Asphyxiation" In Heller's Something Happened	p. 67
The Boy Inside the Banker: A Concluding Interview	p. 77
Notes	p. 91
Works Cited	p. 97
Index	p. 101
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The Boy Inside the American Businessman : Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature

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