| The Economy of Literature Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shell, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801846943 ISBN-13: 9780801846946 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1993 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809.93 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.01" W x 8.89" (0.62 lbs) 192 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shell, Marc: - Marc Shell is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of The Economy of Literature and Money, Language, and Thought, also available from Johns Hopkins. |