Omissions are not accidents : modern apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida / / Christopher J. Knight

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458934103321
• Autore: Knight Christopher J. <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-4426-8571-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93384
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Negativity (Philosophy) in literature; Silence in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Preface -- II. Henry James ('The Middle Years') -- III. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) -- IV. Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons) -- V. Paul Cézanne and Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters on Cézanne) -- VI. Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time) -- VII. Martin Heidegger ('What Is Metaphysics?') -- VIII. T.S. Eliot -- IX. Virginia Woolf -- X. Samuel Beckett (Watt) -- XI. Mark Rothko -- XII. William Gaddis (The Recognitions) -- XIII. Vladimir Nabokov (Speak, Memory) -- XIV. Theodor Adorno (Negative Dialectics) -- XV. Susan Sontag ('The Aesthetics of Silence') -- XVI. Penelope Fitzgerald (The Blue Flower) -- XVII. Krzysztof Kieślowski (The Double Life of Véronique) -- XVIII. Frank Kermode (The Genesis of Secrecy) -- XIX. Jacques Derrida ('How to Avoid Speaking: Denials') -- XX. Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote in a 1919 letter that his work 'consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part which is the important one.' In Omissions Are Not Accidents, Christopher J. Knight analyzes the widespread apophaticism in texts from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth ; century. In theology, apophaticism refers to the idea that what we cannot say about God is more fundamental than what we can; in literature and other works of art, Knight argues, it functions as a way of continuing to speak and write even in the face of the unspeakable.Probing the works of authors and intellectuals from Henry James to Jacques Derrida, Knight suggests that we no longer trust ourselves to speak about experience's most numinous aspect, and explores the consequences of the modern artist's tendency to imagine his or her work as incomplete. Ambitious in the scope of its investigation, Omissions Are Not Accidents lends insight into an important modern phenomenon.

Madison Avenue and the Color Line : African Americans in the Advertising Industry / / Jason Chambers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452373103321
• Autore: Chambers Jason
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-283-89793-8; 0-8122-0385-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 659.1089/96073
• Soggetti: Advertising - United States - History; African American consumers; African Americans and mass media; African Americans in advertising; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-306) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Rise of Black Consumer Marketing -- Chapter 2. The Jackie Robinsons of Advertising and Selling -- Chapter 3. Civil Rights and the Advertising Industry -- Chapter 4. Affirmative Action and the Search for White ; Collars -- Chapter 5. The Golden Age -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements. As the first comprehensive examination of African American participation in the industry, Madison Avenue and the Color Line breaks new ground by examining the history of black advertising employees and agency owners.For much of the twentieth century, even as advertisers chased African American consumer dollars, the doors to most advertising agencies were firmly closed to African American professionals. Over time, black participation in the industry resulted from the combined efforts of black media, civil rights groups, black consumers, government organizations, and black advertising and marketing professionals working outside white agencies. Blacks positioned themselves for jobs within the advertising industry, especially as experts on the black consumer market, and then used their status to alter stereotypical perceptions of black consumers. By doing so, they became part of the broader effort to build an African American professional and entrepreneurial class and to challenge the negative portrayals of blacks in American culture.Using an extensive review of advertising trade journals, government documents, and organizational papers, as well as personal interviews and the advertisements themselves, Jason Chambers weaves individual biographies together with broader events in U.S. history to tell how blacks struggled to bring equality to the advertising industry.