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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"economic criticism"”.
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… has evoked a long history of critical response. Criticism has tended to read the text for its role in the development of detective fiction and as illustrative of various theoretical positions. However, the implications of the “The Purloined Letter,” as a tale of ratiocination, has largely been …
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Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt
… of character agency in the context of economic activity. The main theoretical aim of my study has thus been to develop an approach that allows for comparative critical analysis of the ways in which characters, especially child characters, operate as economic agents. The thesis combines …
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THE WHITE FRAUD: WHITE ELEPHANTS, VALUE, AND EXCHANGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
… embody American anxieties about Southeast Asian economic and social practices, including so-called “oriental despotism” and what Marx termed the “Asiatic mode of production.” I begin by looking at the ways in which contemporary American writing about white elephants remains vexed about the value …