The Boy Inside the American Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Boy Inside the American Businessman: Corporate Darwinism in Twentieth-Century American Literature
By (Author) Carl S. Horner
University Press of America
University Press of America
11th September 1992
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology and anthropology
Business studies: general
Society and culture: general
Business and Management
810.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
116
Width 135mm, Height 215mm, Spine 9mm
154g
Description
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.
Reviews
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
Horner writes with wit, fluent precision, sympathy and an impressive range of reference in this study, and his instances include not only literary works but clinical studies and anecdotal evidence from corporate 'survivors' themselves. -- Douglass Fowler, Florida State University
Horner writes with wit, fluent precision, sympathy and an impressive range of reference in this study, and his instances include not only literary works but clinical studies and anecdotal evidence from corporate 'survivors' themselves. -- Douglass Fowler, Florida State University
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
Author Bio
Carl S. Horner is Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.
