The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and EconomicsMartha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. It will appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject. |
Contents
PART I | 16 |
The issue of representation | 53 |
1970 | 68 |
money and semiosis | 95 |
Cash check or charge? | 114 |
Dominant economic metaphors and the postmodern | 131 |
formalism selfconsciousness | 150 |
The ends of economics | 175 |
Sades ethical economies | 258 |
Fugitive properties | 277 |
Trollopes addictive realism | 293 |
the historical transformation | 307 |
Smoking the hack and the general equivalent | 321 |
Who paid for modernism? | 335 |
John | 352 |
The Great Gatsby and deficit | 365 |
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