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The volume offers an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence the production of literature. By bringing together the research areas of literary criticism and book history, the volume focuses on narrative strategies, metaphors and tropes that reflect the market as a network of multi-conglomerates, authors, translators and readers. The global scope of the different contributions unites analyses of German, English, Spanish, French, Scandinavian, Indian and South African literature. The contributors attend carefully to the economic contexts of the literary production while simultaneously addressing the market’s influence on content and form. Thoughts on poetological reflections of economic phenomena complement studies concerning the means of production and vice versa.

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Franziska Jekel is a research associate in the Department of German Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her specific research interest is in literary representations of poverty and in the aesthetics of uncertainty. Anna-Katharina Krüger completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich as a member of the DFG Research Training Group Globalization and Literature. Her main teaching and research interests are in (post)colonial literature. Myriam-Naomi Walburg is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focus lies on literary multilinguism, the poetics of translation and Postcolonial Studies.

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