Litonomics
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Finance and Society |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059599900000157/type/journal_article |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-5999 |