METAPHORS OF ECONOMY - N. Bracker
KORTE INHOUD
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 dynamic terms made available by the metaphor of economy, and, more specifically, the economy of the metaphor. The metaphor of economy allows to show the dynamic processes of exchange, circulation and interested negotiation. The essays in this volume display approaches to cultural and discursive practices derived from the methods and texts of economics. They provide a body of literary and cultural criticism founded upon economic paradigms, which makes apparent the genealogy of our economic thought and the suggestion that looking at human exchange can enrich our understanding of culture. The interest of this volume is manifold: it gives a historical account of the development of economics, elucidates the emergence of theor...
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Original publisher's sewn blue paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: 170pp., [6]pp., 13 contributions with notes & references, introduction, notes on contributors. CONTRIBUTIONS: 1. Nicole Bracker: Accounting for the Economy of Metaphors and Metaphors of Economy. 2. Steven Connor: Destitution. 3. Dorothy Rowe: Money, Modernity and Melancholia in the Writings of Georg Simmel. 4. Philip Tew: Exploring an Economy of Exegetical Structures through Cassirer and Bourdieu. 5. Nadja Gernalzic...
