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Steve Mentz's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice in the group
Global Shakespeares on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoA focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited “The Fiend Gives Friendly Counsel”: Laucelot Gobbo and Polyglot Economics in The Merchant of Venice on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
A focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) excerpts in the group
Sustainable Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe 10 excerpts below represent my contribution to Marina Zurkow’s volume More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) (Punctum 2016).
More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows t…[Read more] -
Steve Mentz deposited More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) excerpts on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
The 10 excerpts below represent my contribution to Marina Zurkow’s volume More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) (Punctum 2016).
More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows t…[Read more] -
Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThis article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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Steve Mentz's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
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This article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]
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A reading of sand, swamp, and shit in terms of a “brown” ecological vision, with reference to Spenser’s Amoretti 75, Bunyon’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, and Borges’s Chinese Encyclopedia, among others.
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Steve Mentz's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
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Steve Mentz changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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Steve Mentz's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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Steven Roger Mentz replied to the topic Recent Scholarship regarding Robert Greene in the forum
Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoKristen beat me to suggesting the Melinkoff/Gieskes volume, which is really the place to start, especially their excellent “Recent Studies” chapter. Many of the contributors to that volume also have larger projects that consider Greene, including me, Lori Newcomb, Rob Maslen, and Katharine Wilson. Kristen is right also about the University Wits…[Read more]
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