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Call for Research collaborators: Materials Science lens for Literary Analysis

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  • 17 May 2018 at 11:42 am #1017038

    Gloria Lee McMillan
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    MLA Interdisciplinary Research Colleagues,
     We have been discussing these issues on ResearchGate.

    LINK: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Rust-Belt-Literature-at-the-Modern-Languages-Association/update/5afd9eb94cde260d15df4878
    I will shortly place a call for people who may be interested in \”data mining\” novels in English from mid- or late-19th through 20th C. through a lens of solid waste management. A similar project re-read novels such as Moby Dick through the lens of fuel consumption. Our literary analysis will focus on the question of who dumps upon whom and subjectivities as manifested in distance from processing of waste matter.
    We can use a corpora of texts for this analysis. We can set up Kenneth Burkean word clusters around the motif of trash.
    The issue of solid and liquid waste management (materials science) also shows a light on social class stratification from a perspective of resource usage. The scientist-novelist C. P. Snow said that the separated two cultures of science and the humanities, their faulty communication and marred relationships were a major cause of global problems not being solved.

     

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