Overview

Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the ""economic novel"", that puts forth economic choices and events to narrate social behavior, individual desires, and even non-economic decisions. For many authors, literary narration also offers a means to express critical viewpoints about economic development, for example in regards to its ecological or social ramifications. Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic and literary texts deal with similar subjects, and explores the ways in which economic ideas and metaphors shape literary texts, focusing on the analogies between economic theories and narrative structure in literature and drama. This volume also suggests that connecting literature and economics can help us find a common language to voice new, critical perspectives on crises and social change. Written by an impressive array of experts in their fields, Economics and Literature is an important read for those who study history of economic thought, economic theory and philosophy, as well as literary and critical theory.

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Author:   Ҫınla Akdere (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) ,  Christine Baron (University of Poitiers, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367886202

ISBN 10:   0367886200
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction and Overview ÇINLA AKDERE AND CHRISTINE BARON AND BRUNA INGRAO Part I Passions and Interest: A Comparative Study of Economic Texts and Literary Masterpieces 2 Narratives of passions and finance in the 19th century BRUNA INGRAO 3 The passions and the interests: the Sentimental Education of Gustave Flaubert ALPHONSO SANCHEZ 4 Literature and Political Economy: Saint-Simon and Jean-Baptiste Say’s writings GILLES JACOUD 5 Which Economic Agent Does Robinson Crusoe Represent? CLAIRE PIGNOL 6 Political Economy and utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times NATHALIE SIGOT AND ÇINLA AKDERE PART II Economic Ideas and Metaphors in Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach 7 Concordances and dissidences between economy and literature JEAN-JOSEPH GOUX 8 Economics and monetary imagination in André Gide's The Counterfeiters ÇINLA AKDERE AND CHRISTINE BARON 9 ‘I Always Wanted to Have Earned My First Dollar but I Never Had’: Gertrude Stein and Money LAURA E. B. KEY 10 Georges Perec’s Les Choses as the Privileged Domain of Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers EYÜP ÖZVEREN PART III Facing change: reflections of economic development and crises in historical and literary texts 11 Transforming Economic and Social Relations: Modern Economy in Novels of Uşaklıgil REYHAN TUTUMLU SERDAR AND ALI SERDAR 12 Mechanization Experience in Agriculture in Turkey: The Pomegranate on the Knoll SELİN SEÇİL AKIN AND IŞIL ŞİRİN SELÇUK 13 An Intertextual Analysis of the Village Novels by Village Institute Graduates: Socio-economic Scenes of the Turkish Village between 1950 and 1980 ESRA ELİF NARTOK 14 Theatre in Crisis, Theatre of Crisis: Economics and Contemporary Dram

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Çınla Akdere is Lecturer of History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical Univeristy and researcher at the Labaratory Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Economiques (PHARE), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Christine Baron is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Poitiers at Université de Poitiers, France.

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