Fiction and Economy

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349281956
• ISBN13: 9781349281954
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"