As the world still reels from the financial crisis of 2007-8, it seems timely to reflect on the connections between money and value embedded in all our discourses about economy, language and literature. The essays in this volume bring together a wide range of approaches to demonstrate how the discipline of English studies and language and literature studies more generally rest on a goldmine of largely unexamined economic metaphors: from Ferdinand de Saussure's notions of linguistic "value" to the actual economic value of English as a second language; from Shakespeare's uncanny eye for the fiduciary principle of the modern economy to Joyce's "scrupulous meanness" as an economy of style; from women interrupting the circulation of money in early modern comedy to "living well on nothing a day" in Thackeray's Vanity Fair; from derivatives in the poetics of Anne Carson to the generic economy of gay coming-out films.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783823380672
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-8233-8067-2
- Verlag: Narr
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.10.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL)
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 366 g
- Seiten: 254
- Format (B x H): 150 x 220 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt