LEADER 02954nam 2200445 450 001 9910825649503321 005 20230119171059.0 010 $a0-8229-8150-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000871370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4699612 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC28387029 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL28387029 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000871370 100 $a20230119d2016 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndebted $ecapitalism and religion in the writings of S. Y. Agnon /$fYonatan Sagiv 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCincinnati, OH :$cHebrew Union College Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) $cillustrations, tables 311 $a0-8229-4457-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index. 327 $aA Monetary Prelude: Agnon's Time in Germany -- Introduction -- The Gift of Debt -- Talking Through Money -- Can't Buy Me Love -- The Incomplete Text and the Indebted Author -- Conclusion. 330 $a"This is the first book to examine the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 1966 Nobel laureate in literature, through a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and Jewish and religious studies. Sagiv outlines the vital role economy plays in the construction of religion, subjectivity, language, and thought in Agnon's work, and, accordingly, explores his literary use of images of debt, money, and economy to examine how these themes illuminate other focal points in the canonical author's work, excavating the economic infrastructure of discourses that are commonly considered to reside beyond the economic sphere. Sagiv's analysis of Agnon's work, renowned for its paradoxical articulation of the impact of modernity on traditional Jewish society, exposes an overarching distrust regarding the sustainability of any economic structure. The concrete and symbolic economies surveyed in this project are prone to cyclical crises. Under what Sagiv terms Agnon's "law of permanent debt," the stability and profitability of economies are always temporary. Agnon's literary economy, transgressing traditional closures, together with his profound irony, make it impossible to determine if these economic crises are indeed the product of the break with tradition or, alternatively, if this theodicy is but a fantasy, marking permanent debt as the inherent economic infrastructure of human existence"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aEconomics in literature 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 676 $a892.435 686 $aREL040000$aLIT004210$2bisacsh 700 $aSagiv$b Yonatan$f1979-$01270994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825649503321 996 $aIndebted$94056970 997 $aUNINA