Bringing together literary scholars from a wide variety of fields who engage theoretically, rhetorically, and/or historically with Economics, broadly defined.
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoWe have passed peer review. Please consider writing an essay. Details in previous post.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoRoutledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
Many thanks,
Gloria McMillan, Editor
Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoTwo-Act Play
Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man’s “Gary, Indiana” song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_:
Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J…Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018
Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societi…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Is a key to culture in the distance from “dirt”? in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoThis Blog covers a new approach to culture via literary analysis. The hypothesis is that distance from dirt is a key aspect of culture that cuts across ideologies. To begin this work, we will use Big Data to study (content analysis) themes and characters in US novels from the 19th C. to the 21st C. Theory for this analysis will be Joel Kovel’s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Essay: The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! in the discussion
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThe Rust Belt is Mythical, too! is a rhetorical analysis of the media-generated rhetorical trope “The Rust Belt.” Why are few if any writers of fiction being published who deal with this large region? What is the effect of being called “The Rust Belt” upon creativity and cognitive development and/or writing anxiety?
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis New Rheto rical Continuum Chart for Fiction shows a spectral range between individual (New Critical, structuralist, formalist) approach to group-based (socio-rhetorical) approach to fiction in the 21st Century.
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Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoA new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]
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Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoA new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson posted an update in the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoWith thanks to many MLA contributors for their suggestions, please check out (and continue to send ideas for) my living list of business stories, a.k.a. Capitalism Reading List! http://ethicalsystems.org/content/reading-succeed
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Canon of 21st century global capitalism in the discussion
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoI am engaged in a project to bring contemporary world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of business practice. One aspect of this project involves identifying enduring novels that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the c…[Read more]
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Matt Seybold created the group
Economics & Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
