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 ?ducia ry 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.