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 | | The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (Economics As Social Theory) by M. Woodmansee ISBN-10: 9780415149440 ISBN-10: 0-415-14944-4 ISBN-13: 9780415149440 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-14944-0 Hardcover 1999-05-12 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Bringing together economics and literary scholarship, the new economic criticism demonstrates that literary and theoretical texts may be fruitfully examined for their economic form, content and contexts and that economic theories and texts may also be illuminated by scrutinizing their tropes, narrative devices and ideologies. This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. It will appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject. | ||
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Solid anthology I visit this book from the point of view of a literary critic, so I don't feel equipped to comment exactly on how well it really discusses social theory or economics. What is interesting about the subject is the diversity of essayists; while many clever lit critics are represented here doing their thing, there are also cultural critics and real economists. In 2006, looking back on it, the book begins to rust a bit. The "New" Economic criticism (if we still call it that) isn't going to disappear any time soon, but it's not as "new" as it was in 1999, or more accurately in 1994, when the collection began in the form of a meeting of the Society for Critical Exchange. Still, this is a very useful account of major critical tides in the vast sea of economic criticism, and the work done by the editors to explain their mission and the shape of the book (and the field they define) is admirable. There are essays here from heavy hitters (Goux!) and not so heavy, and they cover a wide range of topics and periods, so there is diversity within this special anthology as well. The last section of the book, dealing with critical discourse, was the most interesting to me, and speculates on (among other things) the relationship of economic language, critical language, and metaphorical language. Perhaps not a book that will tell you what's going on today in this subfield, or where that subfield exactly is, but one that will help you figure out where it's been. | ||