Re-Reading Economics in Literature
Regular price
€97.99
A01=Matt Spivey
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Austrian economics
Author_Matt Spivey
automatic-update
capitalism economics
Capitalism in literature
capitalist critical perspective
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSB
Category=JPFC
Category=KCS
Category=KCSA
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
economics and literature
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Free market economics
Language_English
Libertarian literature
literary criticism
literary theory
Marxist literary theory
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781793634474
- Weight: 395g
- Dimensions: 161 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In Austrian economic thought, “human action” guides all social and cultural experience. For both the real world and for fictional texts, this starting point can illuminate literature in new ways and offer valuable insight for literary critics who have previously been beholden to Marxism and other anti-capitalist perspectives. In Re-Reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective, Matt Spivey posits that in its relationship to literature, Austrian economic criticism entails a methodology that embraces the following: 1) an analytical reading that promotes both the individual artist as the creator of literature and the individual reader as the consumer of literature; 2) an understanding of the entrepreneurial quality of literature, that capitalism is a system that embraces creativity and evolution in the marketplace; and 3) a recognition of subjective value as fundamental to human choice and action, both in art and in the real world. In addition to the study of the individual, Spivey also incorporates the concepts of business cycles, government intervention, social dynamics, and technological evolution in his analysis. Scholars of literary studies and economics will find this book particularly useful.
Matt Spivey is professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Arizona Christian University.
