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Pioniere des Forschungsfeldes melden sich zu Wort - ein Sammelband blickt auf 30 Jahre Forschung zurück. Der Band führt originelle Beiträge etablierter Forscher zusammen, die das Themenfeld der literarischen Ökonomik nachhaltig geprägt haben. Zum ersten Mal in der Fachgeschichte wird dabei die Verschränkung zwischen Literatur und Ökonomie historisch vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart nachgezeichnet, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem zeitgenössischen Diskurs liegt. Die Beiträge zeigen neben der Brisanz der Thematik auch die Relevanz der literarischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit real- und finanzwirtschaftlichen Fragestellungen.

Economics in literature.

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"Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and architects. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Bruno Latour and many others, Waste: A Philosophy of Things investigates the complexities of waste in sculpture, literature and architecture. It traces a new philosophy of things from the ancient to the modern and will be of interest to those working in cultural and literary studies, archaeology, architecture and continental philosophy"-- Provided by publisher

Refuse and refuse disposal --- Antiquities --- Ruins in literature --- Waste (Economics) in literature

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This title examines the oppositional emergence and eventual ideological containment of 'rugged consumers' in late 20th century American literature, who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. The book shows how certain authors position their rugged consumers within the intertwined American myths of primal nature and rugged individualism, creating left- and right-libertarian maker communities that are skeptical of both traditional political institutions and (in its pre-neoliberal state) globalised corporate capitalism.

American literature --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Material culture in literature. --- Consumption (Economics) --- Material culture --- History and criticism.

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This book explores Henry James's imaginative engagements with the burgeoning consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on his hitherto neglected fascination with shops and the shopping experience. Examining a wide range of the author's fiction and non-fiction in the context of developments such as the rise of the department store, the growing public presence of women shoppers and shop workers, and the increasing sophistication of commodity display and advertising, the book argues that consumer desire constitutes an integral part of James's understanding of modern subjectivity. It also demonstrates that the structures and strategies of commodity culture are deeply embedded in his style, his aesthetic and his conception of authorship. The study offers new readings of familiar and less familiar texts, and includes a wealth of original historical documentation that has been gleaned from contemporary newspapers, periodicals, advertising manuals, sales catalogues and guidebooks.

Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Shopping in literature. --- Women in literature. --- James, Henry --- James, Henry, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Commerce. --- Critique et interprétation.

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"American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

American literature --- Desire in literature. --- Teasing in literature. --- Searching behavior in literature. --- Material culture in literature. --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism.