Fiction and Economy

by Bruce, Susan; Wagner, Valeria

• ISBN13: 9780230005242
• ISBN10: 0230005241
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume brings together new essays on the relations between fiction and the economy by eleven academics, 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. Including essays from leading (and in some cases multilingual) academics in Europe as well as the UK, Fiction and Economy is genuinely international, distinctive, and broad in its scope.

Author Biography

SUSAN BRUCE is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. She has taught at the universities of Florence, Geneva and St Andrews, and is the editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1997) and Shakespeare: King Lear (1997).

VALERIA WAGNER is maître d'enseignement et recherche at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she teaches in the Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature programmes. Her publications include Literatura y vida cotidiana. Ficción e imaginario en las Américas (2005) and Bound to Act: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction (1999).

Table of Contents

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

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