书目名称 | Economies of Scale |
副标题 | Financialization and |
编辑 | Ann Keniston |
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概述 | Extends research on contemporary poetry and economics to examine twenty-first century North American poetry.Examines the socio-political underpinnings of contemporary cultural production.Draws on econ |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics |
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描述 | .This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21.st .century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and prosopopeia or personification. Its four body chapters offer in-depth readings of the work of eleven formally, culturally, and thematically diverse contemporary U.S. and Canadian poets who variously consider labor, consumerism, debt, and the derivative form; the Coda reads several recent poems about reparations in terms of an emerging tendency to emphasize the historical, racialized, and ethical contexts of contemporary economics. As the book explores financialization’s representation in recent poetry, it redresses arguments that poetry is irrelevant to contemporary culture.. |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | Literature and Economics; poetry; economics; economic humanities; synecdoche; creative economy |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39341-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-39341-9Series ISSN 2946-5397 Series E-ISSN 2946-5400 |
issn_series | 2946-5397 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |