Fictions Inc. : : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture / / Ralph Clare.
Fictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation-Frank Norris's The Octopus-Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from f...
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