Fiction and Economy, dir. S. BRUCE et V. WAGNER

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 the relations between fiction and the economy by eleven academics, 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. Including essays from leading (and in some cases multilingual) academics in Europe as well as the 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 Commodifying Signifiers--R.Waswo
Trafficking Words--M.Bridges
The Stain of the Signature--P.de Bolla
Semiotics and Economics--G.Colaizzi & J.Talens
Parties in Converse': Literary and Economic Dialogue in Michael 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 Athens and the Possibilities of Generosity, or, The Gift of a Stranger--S.Bruce
Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste in Hegel, Bataille, Derrida--R.Sellars
Towards a General Economics of Cinema--B.Bennett
Index


BIOGRAPHIE

SUSAN BRUCE is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. She has taught at the universities of Florence, Geneva and St Andrews, and is the editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1997) and Shakespeare: King Lear (1997).

VALERIA WAGNER is maître d'enseignement et recherche at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she teaches in the Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature programmes. Her publications include Literatura y vida cotidiana. Ficción e imaginario en las Américas (2005) and Bound to Act: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction (1999).