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.... In The Ambassadors , this withdrawal responds to the inherent maximalism of the novel's primary antagonist, advertising. The Ambassadors reveals advertising as a form of representation uninterested in the material object. Against advertising's abstraction, the novel uses opaque, empty style to keep its surface...

... and distribution regimes, and the careers of dramatizers, directors, and stars. Focusing on the early twenty-first century adaptations of Jane Austen's novels, I argue here that the differing ways print and filmic media are packaged, advertised, and sold or exhibited to potential cultural consumers creates...

... their American misreaders, reimagining social nightmares as pleasant fantasies. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Charles Dickens George Du Maurier advertising sensationalism reception As feminist criticism has stressed, Victorian fiction often seems so narrowly focused on affirming...

... Park (1955) and Advertisements for Myself (1959) synthesize publishing history and literary criticism, making the history Brier recovers much more complex than previously thought. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is commonly read—in modern criticism as well as in contemporary “negative...

...R. BRANDON KERSHNER GARRY LEONARD, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 252 + xii, cloth, $ 49.95. JOSEPH VALENTE, ed. Quare Joyce (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 297, cloth, $47.50, paper, $19.95...

... into the psychological complexity of the immigrant debates and their broader global contexts. Multiculturalism becomes, for Mizruchi, a highly contradic- tory set of issues that are exemplified in advertisements from this period. She shows how advertisements served as a site that staged some of the most fundamental...

... significance. The book's transnational archive is predominantly “hemispheric,” focusing on US and Latin American films, texts, and advertising campaigns, mostly from the last twenty years. Planetary ecological discourse often designates the scene of the “global culture” in the title. Not only is sustainability...

... approach, but in her chapter on science fiction, she demonstrates she is keenly aware of the shortcomings of the method: “In my focus on the relationship between textual responses to mid-century advertising rhetoric and mediated representations of subject-object relations, I likewise depart from recent sci...

... as allegories of New Deal liberalism that echo the literary ambitions and attitudes of its authors, then Smith reads these texts as parables of working-class dil-5, engaging the central aspirations and anxieties of the genre's readers. Drawing on letters to the pulps, editorials, advertisements...

... fetishism and its necessary suppression of the social relations of production. In the case of "Negro head tobacco, the social relations of pro- duction are exposed and indeed celebrated in a tobacco that is named for the slaves who pick and process it. Like the name "Negro head," early advertise...

.... We have all had analogous moments. Years ago in Madrid, I saw a placard advertising Burger King's new salad menu; it read: “Verde que te quiero verde” (Green, how I want you green), the opening line of Federico García Lorca's surrealist masterpiece “Romance sonámbulo.” In such moments, the cognitive...

... in the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1896. In this collection of excerpts from other major newspapers of the day, Boston African Americans (perhaps including Hopkins and her peers) would have been able to read depictions of black Ethiopian nationalism as fundamentally akin to US nationalism...

... advertisements. Heart of Darkness, Georg Simmel, flânerie, adrenaline, Isa- dora Duncan—the reader glimpses these fragments of speed culture over and over again, Novel: A Forum on Fiction 44:2  © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 294 novel | summer 2011 sometimes at a great distance, sometimes at close...

..., 11, 85, 89). These readers love reading like they love rugs advertised in the Sundance catalog—they love reading because it is advertised in the Sundance catalog (227–29, 252). Things really get interesting in the book’s final chapter, where the “unequivocal celebration of literary read- ing...

... moments in which its depictions of temporary work compel us to think through our own. Dickens's novel teaches us that work does not have to be experienced as painful to cause irreversible damage. For readers of Victorian fiction, this advertisement may recall another overworked and disturbingly...

....” Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin) 14 Jan. 1869 : n. pag. Nineteenth Century British Newspapers < http://newspapers11.bl.uk/blcs >. “Thom's Irish Almanack and Official Directory, with the Post-Office, Dublin City and County Directory for the Year 1849.” Freeman's...

... Hébert marvels that the author of Le manoir mystérieux, whose name he declares 1 Le manoir mystérieux appeared in Le nouveau monde in daily installments between October 20 and December 14, 1880. According to advertisements that appeared in Le nouveau monde begin- ning in March 1881...

.... Advertisement. Times . 19 Apr . 1909 : 16 . Country Cottages. Advertisement. Times . 22 Apr . 1909 : 3 . Cucullu , Lois . “Shepherds in the Parlor: Forster’s Apostles, Pagans, and Native Sons.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 32 ( 1998 ): 19 –50. Delany , Paul . “‘Islands of Money...

... hypothesis will be put to the test: the novel, she has argued, “was not made to reproduce the status quo.” © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Anonymous . Morning Advertiser . No. 993 , 1 April 1797 . ———. New London Magazine . Vol. 4 , No. 6 (June), 1788 . Armstrong...