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Economy of Literature

  • ISBN-13: 9780801846946
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Marc Shell
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/1993
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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''A unique study of the relationship between literature and matters economic from Ancient Greece to our own times.''--The Independent.''Shell demonstrates that the economic thought of any historical period works in its literature far more problematically--and more profoundly--than a traditional description of economic influence can suggest.''--Poetics Today.Marc Shell explores how both money and language give ''worth'' by providing a medium of exchange; how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and language; and how words transform mere commodities into symbols at once aesthetic and practical. ''Stimulating and valuable.''--Comparative Literature.Softshell Books.

""Stimulating and valuable.""

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