Business Rhetoric in German Novels

Argues on the evidence of nine major German novels that literature and business have in common a reliance on language , understood in a creative, performative, and rhetorical sense. Throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, Germany has maintained its position as one of the world's largest economies. In the literature of this period, business is often depicted as a performance that requires great linguistic skill. This book is a study of the representation of business pract