Heads Or Tails: The Poetics of MoneyExamines the role of money in modern German literature. Using examples from Goethe, Gotthelf, Holderlin and others to demonstrate the intersecting worlds of literature and finance, the author argues that money, like literature, has no intrinsic value, but is at the same time a necessity. |
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Contents
Translators Note | 7 |
Aut Prodesse aut Delectare | 28 |
PART II | 36 |
The Materiality of Money and of Literature | 58 |
To Torment from AfarMoneys Relational Mania | 77 |
Moneys SexMoney Reproducing Grandchildren | 91 |
A Caprice on Corporate Bodies | 117 |
Time Is Money | 127 |
Symbol Allegory Fetish | 199 |
Schlemihls ShadowNietzsches Shadow | 216 |
The Source of the Center | 241 |
Deconstruction of Money | 251 |
RuinRuins | 261 |
The Medial Blood of the Economy | 276 |
Notes | 287 |
Bibliography | 321 |
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