Neoliberalism and the Novel. The Relationship of Capitalism and Ben Lerner's '10:04'

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Uppsala University (Department of English), course: MA Hauptseminar: Recent Developments in Literary Studies, language: English, abstract: As a response to a quote by Theodore Martin in his text 'The Dialectic of Change', this essay analyzes the ways in which Ben Lerner´s novel '10:04' is embedded in capitalism as well as the ways in which it is able to overcome the market. The complex interrelation between neoliberalism and the novel is discussed and analyzed in detail.