Fiction and economy
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Fiction and economy
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume brings together essays on the relations between fiction and the economy, all established or emergent scholars from different fields of expertise. The essays range widely in their respective foci, extending beyond purely literary studies to encompass history, the history of language, studies in the visual arts, and philosophy.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fiction and Economy
- S.Bruce & 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 & 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 Index
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