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1 online resource (160 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Swindlers and Prophets; 1. Paris Spleen (The Irony of Revolutionary Power); 2. Animadversions (Technics after Capital); 3. An/economy and Some Others (Accumulationand the Coming Injustice); 4. Insert into Blankness (Poetry and Cultural Memoryin Benjamin's Baudelaire); Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Kapital.
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. |
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Kapital (Marx, Karl) |
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Irony in literature.
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Irony in literature. |
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Capitalism in literature.
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Capitalism in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bajorek, Jennifer. Counterfeit Capital : Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, ©2008 9780804758246 |
| ISBN |
9780804786805 |
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0804786801 |
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9780804758246 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0804758247 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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