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...Peter E. Collins Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Peter E. Collins Nature, the Individual, and the Market in Norris and Dreiser Peter E. Collins The essays in Herbert Spencer’s 1884 treatise on politics and econom- ics, The Man Versus the State, combine two justifications...

...Conrad Steel Before he was a famous poet, Allen Ginsberg was a market researcher. He stopped only when he managed to persuade his employer to automate his job out of existence (using one of the commercial computers that had first become available four years earlier); the resultant unemployment...

... , www.avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/06-21-46.asp . Streit Manfred E. Wohlgemuth Michael . 2000 . “ The Market Economy and the State: Hayekian and Ordoliberal Conceptions .” In The Theory of Capitalism in the German Economic Tradition , edited by Koslowski Peter , 224 – 74 . Berlin : Springer...

...Barbara Foley The winner of this year’s prize is Conrad Steel’s “Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and ‘Howl.’” The judge is Barbara Foley, Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Foley’s chief scholarly and political interests are in the fields of African...

... after 1906 in the context of the wider “Americanization” of the British culture industry and illustrates the ways in which cinema drove changes to readerly expectation, advertising, and the marketing of literature. It also examines how the business of writing for the cinema came to be incorporated...

... as of editorial discourse such as advertising and marketing surveys, this essay argues that the masochistic fantasies of self-shattering featured in Grove’s publications allowed its imagined audience of professional-managerial class radicals to appear to transcend their economic positions. In the pages of Grove...

...Oana Popescu-Sandu In her transnational plays Lenin’s Shoe (2010) and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (2010), Romanian American playwright Saviana Stănescu explores discourses of capitalist market economies, democracy, postsocialism, and gender that overlie the geographies of Central and Eastern...

...Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy Modernism and the Culture of Market Society , by Cooper John Xiros , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2004 .289 pages. Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde , by Comentale Edward P. , Cambridge : Cambridge University...

...Rekha Rosha American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000 , by Clune Michael W. , Cambridge University Press , 2010 . 220 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Rekha Rosha Price Blind: the Economics of Non-Recognition in Post-modern Literature and Culture American...

... on a defense of market individualism and national unity, rather than on claims of black inferiority, conservatives changed the debate about race from an argument about how to best redress the economic and political injuries of racism to one that equates ending racism...

... writers circulated and traces how they developed distinct—and marketable—personas. For example, he tracks Nathanael West’s struggle to define a style and position himself in relation to an older generation of modernists. In college, Cerasulo recounts, West “wore beautiful clothes, dabbled...

... from Parisian literary prestige, combining it with quality paperbacks marketed specifically to the United States’ growing university population, in order to establish itself as a premier avant-garde publisher in the United States. Through these maneuvers, Glass asserts, Grove became a new center...

... Lara Vetter Branding is, of course, about marketing. It is about packaging and adver- tising, about sales and consumption. It is, ultimately, about differentiation and classification, about drawing borders around a product and policing the margins of those boundary lines. “At its most...

... to non-Western writers. 2 This position raises the question of whether novels marketed as “world literature” face the risk of being read as glorified travel books or polished guides to the “real” lives of people living in distant foreign countries. In both cases, the outcome is the same: world...

...- strated, the rise of the novel is closely linked to those aspects of modernity that Naipaul associates in The Middle Passage with the growth of advertis- ing culture.  The upheaval of various categories of social class identity, as well as the rising influence of booksellers upon the literary market...

... at the vision that not only concludes his account, but also serves as the centerpiece to Naked Lunch in a chapter entitled simply “The Market.”2 For Ginsberg, the yage experience revealed that “we are all one Great Being” (Burroughs and Ginsberg 101), leading him to assault “A Materialistic...

... that there are no conflicts of interest or ideology, but simply shared misperceptions of an inefficient system. We see a tension between ends (to maximize the quantity and quality of lives) and means (a reliance on market-driven, corporate-sponsored innovation), a tension figured as a misalignment between what people...

...’ ” began to take shape in the world “political- economic” system, guided by “a particular doctrine that went under the 223 Cornelius Collins name of ‘neoliberalism,’ ” which holds that markets are the proper venue for valuing any and all goods and that the primary purpose of the state...

... and the global meltdown of financial markets took place, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet tries to put environmental literary criticism, or ecocriticism, into dialogue with theories about globalization. For anyone reading this book in the latter half of that year, what would have been especially striking...

... of society to the state. Paradoxically, in market society the combination of intersubjectivity and atomization imbues the conditioned subject with an intense sense of its own character as un conditioned, so that deepening inter dependence is experienced as unprecedented individuation and integrity ( EPR...