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Fiction and Economy

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Editors:
  1. Susan Bruce

    1. Keele University, UK

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  2. Valeria Wagner

    1. Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Fiction and Economy

    • Susan Bruce, Valeria Wagner
    Pages 1-23

  3. Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as Commodifying Signifiers

    • Richard Waswo
    Pages 24-44

  4. Trafficking Words

    • Margaret Bridges
    Pages 45-62

  5. The Stain of the Signature

    • Peter de Bolla
    Pages 63-81

  6. Semiotics and Economics

    • Giulia Colaizzi, Jenaro Talens
    Pages 82-97

  7. ‘Parties in Converse’: Literary and Economic Dialogue in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet

    • Mark Thornton Burnett
    Pages 98-113

  8. The Fabric of Society: Money, Cloth, and Symbolic Exchanges in Njal’s saga

    • Fabienne L. Michelet
    Pages 114-133

  9. ‘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

    • Susan Bruce
    Pages 134-151

  10. Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste in Hegel, Bataille, Derrida

    • Roy Sellars
    Pages 152-166

  11. Towards a General Economics of Cinema

    • Bruce Bennett
    Pages 167-186

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 187-196
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Keele University, UK

    Susan Bruce

  • Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Valeria Wagner

About the editors

BRUCE BENNETT Lecturer in Film Studies at the Institute for Cultural Research of the University of Lancaster, UK MARGARET BRIDGES Professor in the Department of English Languages and Literatures, University of Berne, Switzerland MARK THORNTON BURNETT Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, UK GIULIA COLAIZZI Associate Professor of Communication and Gender Studies, University of Valencia, Spain PETER DE BOLLA Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge, UK FABIENNE L. MICHELET Teaches medieval literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland ROY SELLARS Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Danish, University of Southern Denmark JENARO TALENS Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature and European Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland RICHARD WASWO Professor Emeritus of English, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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