Fiction and Economy

Name: Fiction and Economy
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ISBN: 9780230005242

ISBN-10: 0230005241

ISBN-13: 9780230005242

Edition: 2007

Authors: Valeria Wagner, Susan Bruce

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Bringing together new essays on the relations between fiction and economy, the essays in this title 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.

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 6/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 196
Size: 5.74" wide x 8.63" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Notes on Contributors


Introduction: Fiction and Economy



Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as Commodifying Signifiers



Trafficking Words



The Stain of the Signature



Semiotics and Economics



'Parties in Converse': Literary and Economic Dialogue in Michael Almereyda'sHamlet



The Fabric of Society: Money, Cloth and Symbolic Exchanges inNjal's Saga



'There's none/ Can truly say he gives, if he receives':Timon of Athensand the Possibilities of Generosity, or, The Gift of a Stranger



Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste in Hegel, Bataille, Derrida



Towards a General Economics of Cinema



Index