Metaphors of economy /
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 dynami...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Col·lecció: | Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
v. 25. |
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Taula de continguts:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction; Accounting for the Economy of Metaphors and Metaphors of Economy; Destitution; Part I: Economy
- Between Science and Literature; Money, Modernity and Melancholia in the Writings of Georg Simmel; Exploring an Economy of Exegetical Structures through Cassirer and Bourdieu; From Classical Dichotomy to Differantial Contract: The Derridean Integration of Monetary Theory; Invisible Hands and Visionary Narrators: Why the Free Market is like a Novel; Part II: Excessive Economies; The Tropological Economy of Catachresis.
- Desire as Capital: Getting a Return on the Repressed in Libidinal EconomyPart III: Narrative Economies; Lolita
- A Region in Flames; Dire Straits: Paul Auster's The Music of Chance and the Economic Loss; Revolutionist Consumers: The Application of Sacrifice in Ruskin, Bataille and Henry James; "Money, for the Night is Coming:" Gendered Economies of Aging in the Novels of Jean Rhys and James Joyce; The Quest for Values: Traditional Sources in Two Late Nineteenth-Century Novels of Adventure; Contributors.