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In recent years the metaphor of economy has proved to have an immense explanatory power in literary and cultural criticism. Everything can be expressed and analysed in terms borrowed from political economy. Language, texts, social structures, and cultural relationships can be construed in the dynamic terms made available by the metaphor of economy, and, more specifically, the economy of the metaphor. The metaphor of economy allows to show the dynamic processes of exchange, circulation and interested negotiation. The essays in this volume display approaches to cultural and discursive practices derived from the methods and texts of economics. They provide a body of literary and cultural criticism founded upon economic paradigms, which makes apparent the genealogy of our economic thought and the suggestion that looking at human exchange can enrich our understanding of culture. The interest of this volume is manifold: it gives a historical account of the development of economics, elucidates the emergence of theories governed by economic metaphors and clarifies the impact of the metaphor on theories of textuality. It also provides an exchange between economists and literary and cultural critics by combining literary and cultural criticism with economics and covers a wide range of topics which are of interest to scholars from various disciplines. This volume provides a critical exchange which hopes to enrich both economics and literature.

Economics in literature. --- Economics.

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Cet ouvrage propose une lecture de textes contemporains qui traitent du fantomatique, de l'absence, de la mort, du deuil, de l'autobiographie, thèmes chers à Jacques Derrida. Les écrivaines dont il est question dans cet essai - Kathryn Harrison, Sybille Lacan, Nelly Arcan, Laure Adler, Anne-Claire Poirier, Annie Ernaux, Catherine Millet et Christine Angot - donnent à lire des textes déstabilisants, voire scandaleux. Chacune d'elles écrit sa vie, convoquant une des figures spectrales les plus importantes : celle du témoin. Delvaux jette ici un éclairage nouveau sur l'écriture récente des femmes en faisant écho aux réflexions de Derrida sur le témoignage, l'identité, le nom, la langue, l'archive, la fiction et la vérité. Et, à l'instar de l'écrivain et lecteur de la différence, elle invente un lieu - entre témoignage et réflexion critique - qui donne à ces Histoires de fantômes une dimension singulière.

Death in literature.

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"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the idée fixe, who have come close to surrendering to something or someone diabolically seductive or coercive, will recognize in these characters their own encounter with a dangerously systematized world."-From the introduction.Monomania explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marina van Zuylen revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession. She introduces us to artists and collectors, voyeurs and scholars, hypochondriacs and melancholics, whose lives are run by debilitating compulsions that may become powerful weapons against the tyranny of everyday life.In van Zuylen's view, there is a productive tension between disabling fixations and their curative powers; she argues that the idée fixe has acted as a corrective for the multiple disorders of modernity. The authors she studies-Charles Baudelaire, Sophie Calle, Elias Canetti, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann among them-embody or set in motion different manifestations of this monomaniacal imperative. Their protagonists or alter egos live more intensely, more meaningfully, because of the compulsive pressures they set up for themselves. Monomania shows that transforming life into art, or at least into the artful, drives out the anxiety of the void and puts in its place something so orderly and meaningful that it can take on the aura of a religion.

European literature --- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- History and criticism.

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"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees, and the author's remarkable vision is understood as deriving from his occupational or professional training and identity. But we have failed to register, let alone understand, just what a central concern for Chekhov himself, and how deeply problematic, were precisely issues of seeing and being seen."-from the IntroductionMichael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician gave him as a writer in a book that foregrounds the deeply subjective and self-reflexive aspects of his fiction and drama. In exploring previously unrecognized seams between the author's life and his verbal art, Finke profoundly alters and deepens our understanding of Chekhov's personality and behaviors, provides startling new interpretations of a broad array of Chekhov's texts, and fleshes out Chekhov's simultaneous pride in his identity as a physician and devastating critique of turn-of-the-century medical practices and ideologies. Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of Russian literature, devotees of the short story and modern drama, and anyone interested in the intersection of literature, psychology, and medicine.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Dreams in literature. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Identity in literature --- Darwin, Charles, --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

English fiction --- Quests (Expeditions) in literature. --- American fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Memory as a theme in literature --- Quests in literature --- History and criticism.