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Author:   Fiona Cox ,  Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9783631567906

ISBN 10:   3631567901
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   28 February 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents: Fiona Cox/Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa: Introduction - Michael Hutter: Visual Credit: The Britannia Vignette on the Notes of the Bank of England - Cordula Politis: Wisdom vs Riches: The Discourse of Money in Fortunatus - Michael Shields: Songs and Money as a Mirror of the Self. Reflections on Ehrenbote von Rhein's Spiegelweise - Michael Fodor: Diderot and the Play of Money - William Carter: ""Uralte und nie gehobne Beschweerde"": Goethe, Faust and Taxes - Anders Mortensen: Romantic Critics of Political Economy - Sheila Dickson: Finding Treasure in the Works of Achim von Arnim - Kirill Postoutenko: Kapital and picaresque: Towards the Typology of abstractio in European Culture - Armin Schafer: Mad Money: Melville's Doubloon - Fiona Cox: Pygmalion and the Prostitute: Processes of Exchange in Hugo's Les Miserables - Niamh Sweeney: Strategies of Potential. The Idea of Gaming in Baudelaire's Aesthetic of Modern Life - Dick Collins: The Price of Mrs Lovett's Pies: Blood and Cash in the Penny Dreadful - Mary Pierse: George Moore, Sherlock Holmes and the Many Money Questions in Fin-de-Siecle English Fiction - Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa: Love for Sale. Men, Women and Money in Works by Arthur Schnitzler - Brian Moloney: Exchange Rates in Italo Svevo's Later Narrative Fiction - Guy Snaith: All Because of Money: Money and Culture in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion - Ekkehard Knorer: Of Signs and Money in Robert Bresson's Film L'Argent - Ailbhe Thunder: Filming the Virtual Economy from Wall Street to Boiler Room - Joyce Goggin: Casinos and Sure Bets - Ocean's Eleven and Cinematic Money - Christina Oldman: Financial Identities in the American Tycoon Autobiographies by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: Credit Negotiations as Creator of Masculinity - Matthias Weiss: The Trading Floor in the Display Case: Stock Exchange Capitalism as Expressed through the Medium of the Museum Exhibition - Michael Bzdak: Money in the Bank? Corporate Support of the Arts in Twentieth Century American Art - Mary O'Neill: Art and Money: Experience Destruction Exposure - Sina Vatanpour: Money, Language and Identity in Paul Auster's City of Glass and Ghosts - Joachim Schwend: ""Pecunia non olet"": Money and Consumer Cultures."

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The Editors: Fiona Cox is a Lecturer in French at the National University of Ireland, Cork. She published books and articles on Butor, Hugo and Virgil. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa is Professor of German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include German Enlightenment and Romanticism, the literary and cultural history of dream, and the history of reading.

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