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The Visible God. Staging the History of Money.
Rafael Newman
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Hardback. The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare. Using diverse literary-critical and sociological methods of reading, the book suggests that in this criticism comedy performs a self-censoring function, a sort of "recontainment" whereby the emancipatory energies of a given item on the agenda for social change may be altered, within a text's rhetorical economy, even as the utopian possibilities of that change, the fantasies of a more equitable distribution ... Read more
The Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare. Using diverse literary-critical and sociological methods of reading, the book suggests that in this criticism comedy performs a self-censoring function, a sort of "recontainment" whereby the emancipatory energies of a given item on the agenda for social change may be altered, within a text's rhetorical economy, even as the utopian possibilities of that change, the fantasies of a more equitable distribution ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761812524
SKU
V9780761812524
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About Rafael Newman
Rafaël Newman is Lecturer in the Departments of Comparative Literature and the Classics at the University of Washington.
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