Research Catalog

Title

Fiction and economy / edited by Susan Bruce and Valeria Wagner.

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Bruce, Susan, 1960-
• Wagner, Valeria.

Description

xii, 196 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The essays in this volume seek to participate in the current and growing, debate concerning the intersections of fictional and economic discourses. They offer a productive complement to approaches that consider the study of the economy to be fundamental to literary studies, by emphasising how literary thought can throw light on the extent to which the economy is itself a fiction. All contributors come from the field of literary studies, and all show an awareness of the rhetorical and narrative articulations of the economy, addressing the fictional basis of the economy as we know it, and the manner in which meaning is articulated according (but also counter) to the principles at work in these economic fictions. The discussion developed throughout the collection, however, extends beyond literary texts to films, philosophical works and historical and legal discourses, all of which are shown to be permeated by the imaginary make-up of the economy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Economics and literature
• Economics and literature
• Fiction
• Fiction > History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM > General
• Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
• Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
• Literary theory
• Philosophy
• TRAVEL > Literary
• Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Fiction and Economy / S. Bruce and V. Wagner -- Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as Commodifying Signifiers / R. Waswo -- Trafficking Words; M. Bridges -- The Stain of the Signature / P.de Bolla -- Semiotics and Economics / G. Colaizzi and J. Talens -- 'Parties in Converse': Literary and Economic Dialogue in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet / M. Thornton Burnett -- The Fabric of Society: Money, Cloth and Symbolic Exchanges in Njal's Saga / F.L. Michelet -- 'There's none/ Can truly say he gives, if he receives': Timon of Athens and the Possibilities of Generosity, or, The Gift of a Stranger / S. Bruce -- Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste in Hegel, Bataille, Derrida / R. Sellars -- Towards a General Economics of Cinema / B. Bennett.

ISBN

• 9780230005242 (hbk.)
• 0230005241 (hbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library