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.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2007

ISBN

9780230223110

Topic

Literatura

Subtopic

Teoría de la crítica literaria

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Fiction and Economy
1 Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as Commodifying Signifiers
2 Trafficking Words
3 The Stain of the Signature
4 Semiotics and Economics
5 ‘Parties in Converse’: Literary and Economic Dialogue in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet
6 The Fabric of Society: Money, Cloth, and Symbolic Exchanges in Njal’s saga
7 ‘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
8 Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste in Hegel, Bataille, Derrida
9 Towards a General Economics of Cinema
Index