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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 807–831.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Nicola Nixon Duke University Press 2004 Nicola ‘‘Prismatic and Profitable Commerce and the Nixon Corporate Person in James’s ‘‘The Jolly Corner’’ In 1904 William James wrote excitedly to his brother Henry about a chance lunchtime sighting, in a New Jersey...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 June 2007
...June Hee Chung Duke University Press 2007 June Hee Getting the Picture: American Corporate Chung Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors It may be counterintuitive to assert that Henry James...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Jarvis C. McInnis Abstract This essay reconstructs the history of the Cotton Farmer , a rare African American newspaper edited and published by black tenant farmers employed by the Delta and Pine Land Company, once the world’s largest corporate cotton plantation located in the Mississippi delta...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 775–801.
Published: 01 December 2011
... used to describe the continuous and changing social practices of patronage and philanthropy in the era of corporate capitalism. Such friendship calls into question simple conceptions about supply and demand, consumer preference, and the diversifying power of markets. Placing Chesnutt's writings...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Merve Emre This essay argues that literary redescriptions of international American Express offices by queer writers like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and James Baldwin allowed the 1960s literary counterculture to establish a relationship to American corporate culture grounded in irony...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-contactor, and the corporation. Computer-generated poetry from this era often participated in the larger project of fostering public conception of the power and prestige of computers. This ethos of “post-automation poetics” was also informed by computer science experiments with computation’s linguistic...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
...” in the novel’s frame narrative. Scholarship on the novel thoroughly attends to the trope of the protagonist’s invisibility but regularly overlooks his corporeal presence. Invisible Man experiences social invisibility, not as a metaphor but as an embodied, somatic state initiated through racializing violence...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as mass-market consumerism and corporate culture were the counterpoints against which both writers articulated their modernist values. Furthermore, each text figures its author as an American modernist via a nationalized economic imaginary that emphasizes progress, risk, and perseverance as distinguishing...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 811.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to the patriarchal white capitalism of agribusiness corporations. “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection” is available on the Scalar platform at http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2370203 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 ...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., trusts, and corporations. The book presents the competition between these alternative paradigms by following the shifting career choices and internal conflicts of its protagonist, Dr. Howard Sommers, as he strives to satisfy his own vision—at times itself contradictory—of medical professionalism...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of decisive transition in America, as a model of commodity-centered competitive capitalism yielded to the regime of corporate finance. The young academic economists of the period and their literary counterparts explained the economic landscape in much the same way and to many of the same ends. Both began...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 357–380.
Published: 01 June 2022
... collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness —but Yates’s deliberate framing of his stories as “eleven kinds” implies a second object of critique. Reading Yates’s work for social and psychological types, this article proposes that personality tests, corporate typing, and social typologies had a major role...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 199–227.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., continuously, and on the move. Through readings of the manuscripts of John Washington, Margaret Fuller, and Walt Whitman, this article demonstrates how the pencil facilitated such exploration by configuring language, instrument, and corporeal gesture in ways that suited the modernizing nation. The essay draws...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 785–813.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the antinomians’ monstrous births and in the US Senate floor debate of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act just before the Iraq War in 2003. In both instances, rhetoric comparing familiar bodies to unfamiliar corporeal forms conjures powerful feelings of disgust that legitimize intervention. These powerful...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Evan Brier Abstract How should Toni Morrison’s work as a Random House editor be understood? How does it figure, that is, in the larger contexts of literary history, publishing history, and the history of African American expression? Positioning Morrison’s editorial work in relation to the corporate...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
...John Mac Kilgore Engaging in a long-standing debate about how to understand post-Reconstruction era “spectacle lynching,” Kilgore's essay revisits Charles Chesnutt's 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition in light of current theories of racial violence read through the logics of corporate capitalism...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 119–149.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Gatsby's criminality. In the end, these tabloid shadows allow us to challenge the recent revisionist arguments about the corporate and Fordist character of Gatsby's gangsterhood, and to reassess Fitzgerald's contribution to the form of vernacular modernism we now call American noir. © 2012 by Duke...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 293–322.
Published: 01 June 2008
... by, and their texts keenly respond to, developments in Caribbean-U.S. relations during the last half of the nineteenth century. This is particularly so in light of the dependence of corporations like the Panama Railroad Company and United Fruit Company on commodities produced by, and on the commodifying the bodies...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Jerome . 2008 . “ Studio Authorship, Corporate Art .” In Authors and Authorship: A Film Reader , edited by Grant Barry Keith , 167 – 80 . Malden, MA : Blackwell . Christensen Jerome . 2012 . America’s Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures . Stanford...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... lawrencelek.com/AIDOL ), which addresses AI and climate change from a Sino-futurist perspective. Nonetheless, AI in the Wild offers a valuable critique of corporate sustainability. One of its central observations is that corporations typically use AI toward increasing the efficiency of production...