Dame Usury: Gender, Credit, and (Ac)counting in the Sonnets and &lt;i&gt;The Merchant of Venice&lt;/i&gt;

Korda, Natasha

doi:10.1353/shq.0.0072

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“…(2014, p.235) The latter quote suggests that accounting theory should be a promising analytical framework, given that one of the main purposes of accounting is to inform decision-making. Consistently, Natasha Korda (2009) Woodmansee and Mark Osteen (1999).…”

Section: Economically-rooted Theories To Illuminate Literaturementioning

confidence: 79%

“…The empirical setting that Shakespeare scholars would spontaneously recommend to detect the impact of money, commerce and economics on Shakespeare's work is The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, 1600;West, 2016). However, there is evidence that the repercussions are far more widespread throughout the Shakespearean corpus (see Raman, 2005;Korda, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Accounting Theory Lenses to Analyze Literature: An Exploration through Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Gélinas

Baillargeon³

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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The present study is the first of its kind to suggest that accounting theory lenses can be a powerful tool to understand literary works, such as a diegesis. Using Shakespeare’s Macbeth as exploratory setting, we propose a metaphorical abstraction process to translate and analyze characters and currencies. We then illustrate the effectiveness of an accounting theoretical framework to analyze a sample of play events which allude to its finality. The main contribution of this paper is to illustrate how the work of literature and accounting theorists can be mutually illuminating.

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Section: Economically-rooted Theories To Illuminate Literaturementioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Aim and Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting Theory Lenses to Analyze Literature: An Exploration through Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Gélinas

Baillargeon³

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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“…9 Natasha Korda looks at female moneylenders and the gendered nature of debates about moneylending relating to Portia. 10 Joan Ozark Holmer has noted the influence of Miles Mosse and Christian scholars' debates for or against usury. 11 And Marc Shell expands the notion of usury to include "verbal usury," "the generation of an illegal-the church fathers would say unnaturalsupplement of verbal meaning by use of methods such as punning and flattery."…”

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Shylock, Bassanio, and the Jacob Narrative

Perry

2019

Christianity & Literature

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Shakespeare's structural allusions to the Jacob narrative in The Merchant of Venice subvert traditional readings of the play, which posit Jew against Christian, law against charity, or wealth against love, problematizing these dichotomies until they ultimately collapse. Distinctions between Jew and Christian become ideologically irrelevant; instead, the willingness to negotiate, barter, and settle for imperfect love holds tragedy at bay. In conflating religious identity, and reversing the conventions that posit religious identity as central to state politics, the play suggests that political accommodation rooted in pragmatism offers an uneasy peace as an alternative to a violent and tragic end.

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