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BOY INSIDE THE AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN IBD

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA
09 / 1992
9780819187505
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Sinopse

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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