Hostname: page-component-6898cfcb55-kwdml Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-11T09:40:43.268Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Litonomics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Paul Crosthwaite
Paul Crosthwaite*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, UK
*
Corresponding author: Paul Crosthwaite, Departmentof English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH89LH, UK. Email: paul.crosthwaite@ed.ac.uk
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.

In his campus novel Nice Work, David Lodge points to a certain affinity between the practice and rhetoric of high finance and the theoretical discourses central to the study of literature. From this point of view, and as, myself, a literary scholar who has tried to find ways to bring my own disciplinary training to bear on financial and economic topics, I am especially struck, in reading these four outstanding new books, by the strong element of ‘literarity’ that each displays – meaning not simply or necessarily a concern with literature as such, but with the problematics of language, rhetoric, narrative, metaphor, and semiosis that the study of literature opens out upon.

Information

Type
Forum: Money’s other worlds
Information
Finance and Society , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , 2015, pp. 42 - 44
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BYCreative Common License - NCCreative Common License - ND
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits noncommercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
Copyright
© 2015 The Author(s)

References

Clover, J. (2012) Value/theory/crisis. PMLA, 127(1): 107–14.Google Scholar
Clover, J. (2014) Retcon: Value and temporality in poetics. Representations, 126(1): 9–30.Google Scholar
Goux, J-J. (2001) Ideality, symbolicity, and reality in postmodern capitalism. In: Cullenberg, S., Amariglio, J. and Ruccio, D. (eds.) Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge. London: Routledge, 166–81.Google Scholar
Hill, M. and Montag, W. (2015) The Other Adam Smith. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Konings, M. (2015) The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Lodge, D. (2011/1988) Nice Work. London: Vintage.Google Scholar
McClanahan, A. (2013) Investing in the future: Late capitalism's end of history. Journal of Cultural Economy, 6(1): 78–93.Google Scholar
McCloskey, D. (1998) The Rhetoric of Economics. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.Google Scholar
Michaels, W. B. (1987) The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century. Berkeley, CA: Univeristy of California Press.Google Scholar
Pierce, C. S. (1998/1894) What is a sign? In: The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume II. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 4–10.Google Scholar
Poovey, M. (2008) Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Shell, M. (1982) Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Taylor, M. C. (2004) Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Vogl, J. (2015) The Specter of Capital, translated by Redner, J. and Savage, R.. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar