EAN: 9783823380672

ECONOMIES OF ENGLISH KARTONIERT (TB)

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 ?duciary 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.

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