Susan BRUCE et Valeria WAGNER [dir.], Fiction and Economy, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 216 p.
ISBN 0-230-00524-1
RÉSUMÉ
This volume brings together new essays on therelations between fiction and the economy by eleven academics, allestablished or emergent scholars from different fields of expertise.The essays range widely in their respective foci, extending beyondpurely literary studies to encompass history, the history of language,studies in the visual arts, and philosophy. Including essays fromleading (and in some cases multilingual) academics in Europe as well asthe UK, Fiction and Economy is genuinely international, distinctive, and broad in its scope.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Fiction and Economy--S.Bruce& V.Wagner
Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as CommodifyingSignifiers--R.Waswo
Trafficking Words--M.Bridges
The Stain of theSignature--P.de Bolla
Semiotics and Economics--G.Colaizzi &J.Talens
Parties in Converse': Literary and Economic Dialogue inMichael Almereyda's Hamlet--M.Thornton Burnett
The Fabric of Society:Money, Cloth and Symbolic Exchanges in Njal's Saga--F.L.Michelet *
There's none/ Can truly say he gives, if he receives': Timon of Athensand the Possibilities of Generosity, or, The Gift of aStranger--S.Bruce
Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste inHegel, Bataille, Derrida--R.Sellars
Towards a General Economics ofCinema--B.Bennett
Index
BIOGRAPHIE
SUSAN BRUCE is Senior Lecturer in English at KeeleUniversity, UK. She has taught at the universities of Florence, Genevaand St Andrews, and is the editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1997) and Shakespeare: King Lear (1997).
VALERIA WAGNER is maître d'enseignement et rechercheat the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she teaches in theHispanic Studies and Comparative Literature programmes. Herpublications include Literatura y vida cotidiana. Ficción e imaginario en las Américas (2005) and Bound to Act: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction (1999).