American economies / Eva Boesenberg, Reinhard Isensee, Martin Klepper (Eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boesenberg, Eva.

Isensee, Reinhard.

Klepper, Martin, 1963-

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien.

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 219.

American studies, 0178-1987 ; volume 219

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

American literature.

Economics in literature--Congresses.

Economics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HauptbeschreibungAmerican economies are hotly and controversially debated both within the United States and abroad. While most discussions focus exclusively on financial resources, this volume takes a more comprehensive approach, analysing interrelations between financial and cultural capital in different historical contexts and from a variety of perspectives. It addresses the 2008 financial crisis as well as representations of economics in literary texts and films, the usage of metaphors in economic theory, opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogues between economics and cultura

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I. Opening Lecture; J.K. Galbraith - The Great Crisis and the American Response; II. Economics, Culture, and Theory; J.A. Nelson - Gener, Metaphor, and American Economies; E. Boesenberg - Discourses of Value: Reading Literature through Economics and VIce Versa; W. Fluck, F. Lindner - Economics and Narrative; H. Bergthaller - An American Economy of Nature; C. Albers - Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics; III. Economics and Politics; M.Pattillo - Race, Class, and Crime in the Redevelopment of American Cities; E.C. Erbacher - Selling the American Inner City

M. Honeck - A Cheer for Free Labor CottonP. Wiegmink - Protesting Corporate Greed and ""The Problem of Speaking for Others""; IV. Health and Political Economy; M. Priewe - Healing Trades: Gender and the Medical Marketplace in Puritan America; K. Schmieder - Weird Economies: Fictionalizing Reproduction, Medicalization, and Gender; S. Huettner - ""No country for the infirm"": Capitalism, AIDS, and American Drama; Chr. Lammert - Obama's Health Care Reform: Mission Accomplished?; V. Economies of Literature; A. Ganser - Specters of Slavery, Phantoms of Luxury

J. Voelz - The Market of Inspiration: Emerson on the Lyceum StageK. Kanzler - ""Pay Day"": Discourses of Money in Literature by Antebellum ""Factory Girls""; M. Snyder-Körber - Gift Money: Nightwood and the Funding/Form Logics of Late Modernism; D. Löbbermann - Pornotopic Economies: Samuel R. Delany's ""The Mad Man""; L. Bieger - ""Look what they done"" - Proberty, Community and Belonging in Edward P. Jones's ""The Known World""; S. Schneider - The Cost of Living in a Utopian Community: M. Night Shyamalans ""The Village""; List of Contributors

Notes:

International conference proceedings, May 2010, German Association for American Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783825373306

3825373304

OCLC:

793511317