Description
Book SynopsisThe volume offers an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence the production of literature. By bringing together the research areas of literary criticism and book history, the volume focuses on narrative strategies, metaphors and tropes that reflect the market as a network of multi-conglomerates, authors, translators and readers. The global scope of the different contributions unites analyses of German, English, Spanish, French, Scandinavian, Indian and South African literature. The contributors attend carefully to the economic contexts of the literary production while simultaneously addressing the market’s influence on content and form. Thoughts on poetological reflections of economic phenomena complement studies concerning the means of production and vice versa.
Table of ContentsLiterature’s role as a product of and response to economic phenomena – Literary criticism and representations of economism – Capitalism/financial markets – Poetological reflections on the market – Book history and the field of literary production – Agents of the literary field – The global literary market – Authorship – Identity politics
