Metaphors of economy / edited by Nicole Bracker and Stefan Herbrechter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracker, Nicole.

Herbrechter, Stefan.

Series:

Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 25.

Critical studies ; v.25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics in literature.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years the metaphor of economy has proved to have an immense explanatory power in literary and cultural criticism. Everything can be expressed and analysed in terms borrowed from political economy. Language, texts, social structures, and cultural relationships can be construed in the dynamic terms made available by the metaphor of economy, and, more specifically, the economy of the metaphor. The metaphor of economy allows to show the dynamic processes of exchange, circulation and interested negotiation. The essays in this volume display approaches to cultural and discursive practices derived from the methods and texts of economics. They provide a body of literary and cultural criticism founded upon economic paradigms, which makes apparent the genealogy of our economic thought and the suggestion that looking at human exchange can enrich our understanding of culture. The interest of this volume is manifold: it gives a historical account of the development of economics, elucidates the emergence of theories governed by economic metaphors and clarifies the impact of the metaphor on theories of textuality. It also provides an exchange between economists and literary and cultural critics by combining literary and cultural criticism with economics and covers a wide range of topics which are of interest to scholars from various disciplines. This volume provides a critical exchange which hopes to enrich both economics and literature.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nicole Bracker and Stefan Herbrechter

ACCOUNTING FOR THE ECONOMY OF METAPHORS AND METAPHORS OF ECONOMY / NICOLE BRACKER

DESTITUTION / STEVEN CONNOR

MONEY, MODERNITY AND MELANCHOLIA IN THE WRITINGS OF GEORG SIMMEL / DOROTHY ROWE

EXPLORING AN ECONOMY OF EXEGETICAL STRUCTURES THROUGH CASSIRER AND BOURDIEU / PHILIP TEW

FROM CLASSICAL DICHOTOMY TO DIFFERANTIAL CONTRACT: THE DERRIDEAN INTEGRATION OF MONETARY THEORY / NADJA GERNALZICK

INVISIBLE HANDS AND VISIONARY NARRATORS: WHY THE FREE MARKET IS LIKE A NOVEL / ELEANOR COURTEMANCHE

THE TROPOLOGICAL ECONOMY OF CATACHRESIS / GERALD POSSELT

DESIRE AS CAPITAL: GETTING A RETURN ON THE REPRESSED IN LIBIDINAL ECONOMY / DAVID BENNETT

LOLITA – A REGION IN FLAMES / MATTHEW PATEMAN

DIRE STRAITS: PAUL AUSTER’S THE MUSIC OF CHANCE AND THE ECONOMIC LOSS / JOYCE GOGGIN

REVOLUTIONIST CONSUMERS: THE APPLICATION OF SACRIFICE IN RUSKIN, BATAILLE AND HENRY JAMES / JESSICA MAYNARD

“MONEY, FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING:” GENDERED ECONOMIES OF AGING IN THE NOVELS OF JEAN RHYS AND JAMES JOYCE / CYNTHIA PORT

THE QUEST FOR VALUES: TRADITIONAL SOURCES IN TWO LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS OF ADVENTURE / ELIO DI PIAZZA

CONTRIBUTORS / Nicole Bracker and Stefan Herbrechter.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0110-2

1-4237-9146-0

OCLC:

714567196

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201100 DOI