Economics and Literature: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138294357 ISBN 13: 9781138294356

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel", that puts forth economic choices and events to narrate social behavior, individual desires, and even non-economic decisions. For many authors, literary narration also offers a means to express critical viewpoints about economic development, for example in regards to its ecological or social ramifications.

Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic and literary texts deal with similar subjects, and explores the ways in which economic ideas and metaphors shape literary texts, focusing on the analogies between economic theories and narrative structure in literature and drama. This volume also suggests that connecting literature and economics can help us find a common language to voice new, critical perspectives on crises and social change.

Written by an impressive array of experts in their fields, Economics and Literature is an important read for those who study history of economic thought, economic theory and philosophy, as well as literary and critical theory.

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About the Author

Çınla Akdere is Lecturer of History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical Univeristy and researcher at the Labaratory Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Economiques (PHARE), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

Christine Baron is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Poitiers at Université de Poitiers, France.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138294357
• ISBN 13: 9781138294356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Akdere Ҫınla, Baron Christine