Here are two book lists. The first lists the major texts of a graduate course I teach on "19th-Century American Literature and the Marketplace" (I am a literature professor). They're not all novels. The second lists books of literary criticism that focus on pre-20th-century American and British
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:35:15 -0800
Stephen Hymer's Monthly Review article on Robinson Crusoe is an excellent
example of using novels to teach economics.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism they portray.
Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say, Dickens' Hard Times).
Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
jack conroy's 'the disinherited', meridel lesuer's 'the girl' (both depression
era)...
Oh, I almost forgot to mention Walter Brierley's The Sandwichman, 1937. I
recommended this one before in reply to a Pen-l thread a couple of years ago
on Workplace Literature. So I'll just recycle my 2 1/2 year old message:
Louis Proyect wrote or quoted:
Marx warned that, in a capitalist system,
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
The Cave by Jose Saramago? New translation reviewed in today's Christian
Science Monitor.
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
* ...In the morning I walked to the bank. I went to the
automated teller machine to
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Mat Forstater wrote:
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts.
I think the greatest of all time is _JR_ by William Gaddis.
Hey Mat,
A friend (you know who you are) recently turned me on to Gaddis' _JR_. [It's
difficult, but (so far) interesting.] If your student doesn't want something
quite so formally experimental, he might try Richard Powers' _Gain_ (which is
really great); Paul Erdman wrote dimestore econ novels
The Scarlet Empire, David M. Parry, 1906. This one is definitely not post
WWII, but it is notable for its explicit treatment of the point of view of
American right-wing industrialists. Parry was president of the National
Association of Manufacturers at the time he wrote the novel and the N.A.M.
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
* ...Our sentence does not sound severe. Whatever commandment
the prisoner has
At 08:31 PM 11/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
These three are roughly about the same time period:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
(Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony
The Christian criticism of the 1940s and 1950s turned this work upside
down, into a justification of Divine Justice.
Carrol
Stephen Hymer's Monthly Review article on Robinson Crusoe is an excellent
example of using novels to teach economics.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:32217] Re: Re: economy in novels
no, they count as propaganda. They use a lot of references to things that are true (according to current knowledge) to back up a world-view that says that markets are the natural state of the world and the best way of doing things (perhaps
Do most economics principles texts count as fiction?
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Devine, James wrote:
Do most economics principles texts count as fiction?
No, they count as propaganda.
It's possible for something to be both, even to be great at both, to be
great literature and great propaganda. Shakespeare's _Richard III_, for
example.
Michael
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
(Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony
The Christian criticism of the 1940s and 1950s turned this work upside
down, into a justification of Divine Justice.
Carrol
Here's a bit about Kafka's life that Mat might pass to his student,
in case s/he gets hermeneutically
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
J.K. Huysmans, _Against the Grain [A Rebours]_ (1884), Chapter 16:
* After the
Perphaps Goebels succeeded utterly in hijacking the word propaganda,
but in the 70 years or so since that hijacking, no one has really come
up with a word to serve the original quite neutral or even positive
meaning of the term -- namely, truthful writing intended to deepen the
understanding of
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Carrol Cox wrote:
Perphaps Goebels succeeded utterly in hijacking the word propaganda,
but in the 70 years or so since that hijacking, no one has really come
up with a word to serve the original quite neutral or even positive
meaning of the term -- namely, truthful
I am impressed by both the scope of offerings - and the volume of
replies to this question!
I am surprised however, by the lack of The Jungle by old Upton
Sinclair;
the lack of Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel
(altho' I guess it could be classed as old - tho' if Shakespeare's
Michael Pollak wrote:
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Carrol Cox wrote:
Perhaps so, but that's not what's going on in the case of Richard III.
It's propaganda in sense of being a lie.
I agree it was a lie -- but sticking to the old vocabulary, it was
(lying) agitation rather than (lying)
Oh, of course, I left out the old testament of capitalism
Robinson Crusoe
and the new testament
Lost Illusions (Balzac)
cause you said you wanted more modern stuff.
Joanna
I am surprised however, by the lack of The
Jungle by old Upton
Sinclair
There are other worthwile works (I mean authored
by others) of the muckraking period to consider.
I'd start listing some, but, to be honest, I'm
not paid to maintain my interest in 19th and
early 20th century American
The whole book is at gosh.com
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
The Lure Of The Material--Beauty Speaks For
Itself
The true meaning of money yet remains to be
popularly explained and comprehended. When each
individual realises for himself that this thing
primarily stands for and
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
Herman Melville, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of
Maids (1855) [a short story]
A student wants to read some novels to compare the views on capitalism
they portray. Any suggestions? (something more contemporary than, say,
Dickens' Hard Times). Post-WWII or thereabouts. Thanks, Mat
Here's Lu Xun's view of feudalism, capitalism, and imperialism
A Madman's Diary
[From
I can get you to between the wars: Dos Passos
(better than Fitzgerald or Sinclair Lewis, if you
ask me).
The stuff Frank Norris did in the late 19th
century is very interesting as well.
CJ
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At 8:59 PM -0800 11/13/02, Charles Jannuzi wrote:
The stuff Frank Norris did in the late 19th century is very
interesting as well.
* At Marcus's shout McTeague looked up and around him. For the
instant he saw no one. The white glare of alkali was still unbroken.
Then his swiftly
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