Fiction and Economy

1. Introduction: Fiction and Economy
Susan Bruce, Valeria Wagner

2. Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as Commodifying Signifiers
Richard Waswo

3. Trafficking Words
Margaret Bridges

4. The Stain of the Signature
Peter Bolla

5. Semiotics and Economics
Giulia Colaizzi, Jenaro Talens

6. ‘Parties in Converse’: Literary and Economic Dialogue in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet
Mark Thornton Burnett

7. The Fabric of Society: Money, Cloth, and Symbolic Exchanges in Njal’s saga
Fabienne L. Michelet

8. ‘There’s none / Can truly say he gives, if he receives’: Timon of Athens and the Possibilities of Generosity Or The Gift of a Stranger
Susan Bruce

9. Spend, Spend, Spend: Expenditure and Waste in Hegel, Bataille, Derrida
Roy Sellars

10. Towards a General Economics of Cinema
Bruce Bennett

Avainsanat: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Modern Philosophy, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature