MLA Commons | Economics & Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/economics-literature/ Activity feed for the group, Economics & Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a4a96afd82c77d9e411c9b199dc288d0 Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/economics-literature/forum/topic/cfp-routledge-literary-handbook-lit-and-class-4/#post-1021168 Wed, 29 May 2019 04:45:21 -0400 We have passed peer review. Please consider writing an essay. Details in previous post.

]]> 0 a0dace34825dacfbe8a89516051b76f9 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634167/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 04:08:17 -0500 Routledge 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
glomc@dakotacom.net

]]> 0 03737bfa241857922a8ecdbf250f559a Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627130/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:02:13 -0500 Two-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]

]]> 0 dae60014f0d7b29469eb16986b8efffc Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverppol University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/economics-literature/forum/topic/postgrowth-imaginaries-liverppol-university-press-2018-available-open-access/ Mon, 05 Nov 2018 15:25:12 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 a846c9290bc238cd7295cea63f6ca3ed Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man's "Gary, Indiana" song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/economics-literature/forum/topic/is-the-music-mans-gary-indiana-song-shockingly-misplaced-satire-2/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 20:15:23 -0500 Anyone 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]

]]> 0 548770ffd6b65e8473486b0f5a1924b5 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1614989/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:58:47 -0400 ‘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]

]]> 0 7780b81b6158f2129b5c8a32931936a7 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Is a key to culture in the distance from "dirt"? in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609736/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 04:06:06 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 66c666fb9a4ebe73c34af357d6a14dd1 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Essay: The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! in the discussion Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/economics-literature/forum/topic/new-essay-the-rust-belt-is-mythical-too-2/ Tue, 08 May 2018 14:41:00 -0400 The 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?

]]> 0 6f98e815256c5118e52f969b832ebf2f Gloria Lee McMillan deposited New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1605900/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 03:48:44 -0400 This 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.

]]> 0 4e14df753b993297f35cba38147bb2d0 Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1587814/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:54:48 -0500 A 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]

]]> 0 1596f90b171dc05cfb9fca65e4163af8 Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1587766/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:53:35 -0500 A 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]

]]> 0 695fd87ebe1c6bf7476104e8f7caa508 Christopher Michaelson posted an update in the group Economics & Literature: With thanks to many MLA contributors for their suggestions, […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1562569/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:40:02 -0500 With 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

]]> 0 976954e6f8cf595ab74d16c79096d554 Christopher Michaelson started the topic Canon of 21st century global capitalism in the discussion Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/economics-literature/forum/topic/canon-of-21st-century-global-capitalism/ Thu, 07 May 2015 22:41:51 -0400 I 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]

]]> 0 8358a36efa5cf72fc6ccdcdf4952bd7d Matt Seybold created the group Economics & Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/95107/ Wed, 01 Apr 2015 16:15:16 -0400 0