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Cinla Akdere
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Cinla Akdere: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, METU - Middle East Technical University [Ankara]
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Abstract:
Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highlights crucial aspects of the economy. The nexus linking characters to their economic environment is central in a new genre, the "economic novel", that puts forth economic choices and events to narrate social behavior, individual desires, and even non-economic decisions. For many authors, literary narration also offers a means to express critical viewpoints about economic development, for example in regards to its ecological or social ramifications. Conflicts of economic interest have social, political and moral causes and consequences. This book shows how economic and literary texts deal with similar subjects, and explores the ways in which economic ideas and metaphors shape literary texts, focusing on the analogies between economic theories and narrative structure in literature and drama. This volume also suggests that connecting literature and economics can help us find a common language to voice new, critical perspectives on crises and social change.
Keywords: Economics; and; literature (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-12
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Published in Cinla Akdere, Christine Baron (Eds). Economics and Literature : A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach, Routledge, 2019, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 9780367886202
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