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9780801820304
Economy of Literature
by Shell, Marc
by Shell, Marc
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- Comments: Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. <br> "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
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- ISBN-13: 9780801820304
- ISBN: 0801820308
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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SUMMARY
Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? 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. Offering carefully documented interpretations of texts from Heraclitus, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Ruskin, Shell demonstrates the kinship between literary and economic theory and production, introduces new methods of analyzing texts, and shows how literary and philosophical fictions can help us understand the world in which we live.Shell, Marc is the author of 'Economy of Literature' with ISBN 9780801820304 and ISBN 0801820308.
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