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02891aam a2200337 i 4500 001 B92B414CA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 160509t20162016ohu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016019676 020 $a 082294457X 020 $a 9780822944577 035 $a (OCoLC)930683625 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OSU $d ZCU $d PUL $d YUS $d SILO 041 0 $a heb $a heb 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PJ5053 A4 Z7825 2016 100 1 $a Sagiv, Yonatan, $e author. 245 10 $a Indebted : $b capitalism and religion in the writings of S.Y. Agnon / $c Yonatan Sagiv. 264 1 $a Cincinnati, OH : $b Hebrew Union College Press/University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xx, 220 pages ; $c cm 546 $a In English with some text and bibliography also in Hebrew. 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A 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. 600 10 $a Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, $d 1887-1970 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Economics in literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403015816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B92B414CA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search