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Edited by John. Louis DiGaetani. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. Pp. xix, 268. $59.95.
Money: Lure, Lore and Literature is the product of a cross-disciplinary conference held at Hofstra University to examine the role of money in literature. The objective of the book is to connect what seem to John Louis DiGaetani, editor of the volume and a professor of English, to be irreconcilable opposites: money and art. He asserts the former exists only in the realm of the concrete, while the latter inhabits the realm of dream and fantasy. DiGaetani argues that money is a "very slippery and complex subject . . . a term very bard even to define." The confusion arises because the definition of money depends on the context in which it is used. DiGaetani's conundrum is solved by recognizing that the authors in this collection, most of whom are not economists, use the term money to mean variously medium of exchange, currency, income and wealth....