... of totalizing thinking in the West: corporate personhood. That corporate body, with its obvious intentions toward absolute privatization, has been allowed a unique form of embodiment. The imagined body of the corporation has been gifted the presumption of thought. Understanding the limits of the novel...

...Christine Mahady This essay examines the ways in which depictions of animal and human corporeality in Jack London's fiction support an ethics concerned with cultivating a greater attunement to one's surroundings, including other bodies. In contrast to previous readings that understand London's...

...Joseph Drury The dynamic structural model for the erotics of narrative in the eighteenth century was not l'homme moteur of Freud but l'homme machine of French philosopher Julien de la Mettrie. Set in this context, the narrative digressions symbolized by Corporal Trim's arabesque in Tristram Shandy...

...-corporeal imaginings of the nation. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities . London: Verso, 1983 . Barr , Nicholas . “The Phillips Machine.” LSE Quarterly 2 ( 1988 ): 305 –37. Bhabha , Homi K. “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative...

... by doing good.” By honoring recent contributions to the category of corporate charity, the magazine pointedly applauds businesses for doing their part to uphold the image of capitalism as a benevolent economic system. “Not for the first time, capitalism is under attack,” the article begins...

... structural analysis opens up new ways of conceptualizing corporate action, corporate agency, and corporate responsibility. What struck me most in this reading is that it hints at the potential (and potentially exciting) payoffs of a return to extended structuralist analysis, specifically of the novel...

... set of developments in the nineteenth century through which the Kantian understanding of aesthetic experience as disinterested reflective judgment was replaced with a materialist theory of aesthetic response as a corporeal reaction of matter (bodies and nerves) to matter (aesthetic objects...

... ­modernist culture—such as the forceful selling of nostalgic rural domesticity or corporate ­interventions in social provision—also appear in the contemporary cultural landscape. This is true, and it raises the question of what the early twentieth century and the present cultural moment have in common...

... emer- gence. Mizruchi documents the “extraordinary interdependence between literature and other vocations” in the years between 1865 and 1915, when “America underwent the most rapid corporate capitalist development in history and at the same time unparalleled rates of immigration. The result...

...SCOTT J. JUENGEL DANIEL PUNDAY, Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 234 + x, cloth, $65.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Bodying Forth DANIEL PUNDAY, Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal...

... the novel business and mass culture in the 1950s and early 1960s. Brier states (and often restates) this paradox: as publishers were selling out to or being taken over by corporations—a trend evident by the late 1950s and early 1960s and dominant by the mid-1970s—they strategically turned...

... and social origin” (11). On the one hand, the “strategic management of the face . . . facilitated individual acts of self-creation and legitimated spon- taneous claims to distinction in a culture of genteel performance” (26). On the other, a “sci- ence” of corporeal legibility simultaneously “served...

... inherent in what Gibson elsewhere calls ‘‘end-stage capitalism, in which private enterprise andthe profit motive are taken to their logical conclusion Clune does not read Gibson against Fredric Jameson, for example, who finds in Neuro- mancer an ‘‘expression of transnational corporate realities...

... The “wrong body” is a contentious concept in texts about transgender self-experience. “ Anima mulieris in corpore virilis inclusa : the soul of a woman imprisoned in a man's body. Karl Ulrichs' 1862 account of trans-experience,” writes Julian Carter, “echoes into our own time in variants of the phrase...

...” ( 13 ). Genres are provisional and heuristic constructions that provide a way of talking about how novels negotiate, and negotiate with, history. The Circle by Dave Eggers follows a protagonist, Mae, who joins the powerful internet corporation of the title, whose activities are colonizing...

..., this perspective constitutes Asians as a "model minorityJ'-a racial group predisposed to fare exceptionally well in an increasingly globalized economy; but it also renders them a "yellow peril," for they are quite capable of overtaking Americans-as individual workers, as corporations, and even...

... the materiality of old media into relief, but he defiantly demonstrates that—at least in the hands of the modernist giants he studies—the old media were anything but placidly blind to their own corporeal properties. In a monograph that complements recent explorations of medial self-consciousness by critics like...

... to link the typical Horatio Aiger hero to corporate capital's ideology of benevolent mentorship that effaces the sexuality of the benefactor's "interests." Yet on the other, the aqpnmt attempts to unveil "a hidden chapter in the history of an oppressed group" (70)' an objective that unfortunately...

... of activities, ethos, and affect denoted by the word service —across nested spheres: postindustrial capitalism in general; Amazon's corporate culture; the forms of author-reader relation that emerged after Amazon's platforms became integral to the production and circulation of literary fiction...

... 2008, the precarities of the gig economy were also made possible by the neoliberal dissolution of the welfare state in the 1970s and 1980s ( Woodcock and Graham 34–36). The eradication of stable employment and reliable worker protections invited a mode of corporate exploitation hidden under...