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The New Economic Criticism is a collection of essays that brings together literary and economic scholarship. The essays demonstrate that literary and theoretical texts may be fruitfully examined for their economic form, content, and contexts. Additionally, the essays explore how economic theories and texts may be illuminated by scrutinizing their tropes, narrative devices, and ideologies.
Economic criticism brings together economics and literary scholarship, demonstrating that literary and theoretical texts may be fruitfully examined for their economic form, content and contexts and that economic theories and texts may also be illuminated by scrutinizing their tropes, narrative devices and ideologies. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: William Milberg, Deirdre McCloskey, Janet Sorenson, Jean-Joseph Goux, Marc Shell. The text should appeal to economists and literary theorists with an interest beyond the narrower confines of their subject.
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