Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative de H. Hicks

The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Autor H. Hicks
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 ian 2009
The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 37787 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Palgrave Macmillan US – 19 noi 2015 37787 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 38033 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Palgrave Macmillan US – 12 ian 2009 38033 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

  • 18% Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction
    Preț: 71429 lei
  • 15% A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
    Preț: 62471 lei
  • Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race
    Preț: 37713 lei
  • Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics: Parabilities
    Preț: 37996 lei
  • Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature
    Preț: 38222 lei
  • Narrating Class in American Fiction
    Preț: 38163 lei
  • 18% Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century
    Preț: 76764 lei
  • Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism
    Preț: 37734 lei
  • Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning
    Preț: 38092 lei
  • Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics
    Preț: 37864 lei
  • New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
    Preț: 44127 lei
  • Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction: Counterhistory
    Preț: 38222 lei
  • The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo
    Preț: 38298 lei
  • 18% African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places
    Preț: 71324 lei
  • Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism
    Preț: 38034 lei
  • The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature: Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings
    Preț: 37922 lei
  • Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles
    Preț: 37560 lei
  • Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature: Reformed Geographies
    Preț: 37543 lei
  • The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut
    Preț: 37713 lei
  • Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures
    Preț: 37904 lei
  • Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities
    Preț: 38222 lei
  • James Merrill and W.H. Auden: Homosexuality and Poetic Influence
    Preț: 37843 lei
  • Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary
    Preț: 37996 lei
  • F.Scott Fitzgerald'S Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness
    Preț: 37918 lei
  • Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction
    Preț: 37713 lei
  • American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers
    Preț: 38092 lei
  • Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories
    Preț: 37975 lei
  • Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body
    Preț: 38127 lei
  • The Emergence of the American Frontier Hero 1682–1826: Gender, Action, and Emotion
    Preț: 37808 lei
  • Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction
    Preț: 38601 lei
  • The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery: The House Abandoned
    Preț: 37904 lei
  • The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit
    Preț: 37979 lei
  • Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women’s Poetry
    Preț: 38298 lei
  • 15% Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground: From Obscurity to Literary Icon
    Preț: 62281 lei
  • Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction
    Preț: 38222 lei
  • The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s
    Preț: 37356 lei
  • American Political Poetry in the 21st Century
    Preț: 38109 lei
  • Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest
    Preț: 37713 lei
  • Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature: From Faulkner and Morrison to Walker and Silko
    Preț: 37713 lei
  • Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison
    Preț: 37843 lei
  • Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
    Preț: 37996 lei
  • Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction
    Preț: 37602 lei
  • Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies: Reimagining Home, the South, and Southern Literary Production
    Preț: 37843 lei
  • Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror
    Preț: 38222 lei

Preț: 38033 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 570
Preț estimativ în valută:
7281€ • 7568$ • 6037£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 06-20 februarie 25

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230608238
ISBN-10: 023060823X
Pagini: 267
Ilustrații: XII, 267 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:2009
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Soft is Hard' Chapter One:'No Good To Anybody': Player Piano, General Electric, and the Consumption of Work Chapter Two: Soft Soap, Snow Jobs, and Apartment Keys: Human Relations Management in Mid-Century Literature and Film Chapter Three: Automating Feminism: Self-Actualization vs. the Post-Work Society in Joanna Russ's The Female Man Chapter Four: A Cyborg's Work is Never Done: Programming Robots, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercy's He, She and It Chapter Five: 'Sleeping Beauty': Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor Chapter Six:Hoodoo Economics: On Management Gurus and Magical Black Men in Postmodern American Culture Conclusion

Recenzii

"Nearly every page of this book taught me something new. In a series of nuanced readings, Hicks demonstrates the unexpected resonances of human relations management theory, and its progeny in the self-actualization and corporate culture movements, for a range of post-World War II books and films. Hicks joins Jameson, Harvey, and Haraway as an indispensable analyst of the relationship between postmodernism and contemporary capitalism." - Andrew Hoberek, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of The Twilight Of The Middle Class
"Hicks has produced an excellent literature-based scrutiny of the new managerial narrative and the consequent loss of the social imagination of work. Hers is an astute understanding of the chimera of workplace autonomy and its literary expression in a post industrial and post union world." - Laura Hapke, author of Labor's Text
"Hicks has written an indispensable book . . .Equally at home in management theory and gender studies, she shows that literature and film can offer powerful insight into recent management strategies that seek to control the workplace by controlling the affective lives of workers." - James F. Knapp, author of Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work
"What is perhaps most innovative and suggestive about Hicks The Culture of Soft Work lies in its argument for the prevalence of representations of work in fiction and film of the latter decades of the twentieth century but in a form other than traditional working-class literature." - Magali Cornier Michael, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Duquesne University and author of New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction

Notă biografică

Heather J. Hicks is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Villanova University, USA.