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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462406603321

Autore

Cronin Anne M. <1967, >

Titolo

Advertising myths : the strange half-lives of images and commodities / / Anne M. Cronin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-14149-5

1-283-84290-4

1-135-14141-X

0-203-60368-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

659.1/042

659.1042

Soggetti

Advertising - Social aspects

Consumer behavior

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Advertising Myths: The strange half-lives of images and commodities; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Images, commodities and compulsions: Consumption controversies of the nineteenth century; Commodities, consuming pathologies and the useless object; Advertising and the dialectical image; Signs of the times? Gender, commodities and modernity; 2 Advertising as site of contestation: Criticisms, controversy and regulation; Regulating culture; Instituting beliefs: trade associations and non-governmental organizations; Legislating advertising

3 Advertising agencies: Commercial reproduction and the management of beliefAdvertising effects and agencies' self-promotional practices; Regulation, promotional rhetoric and commercial practice; Controversies and regulation; Understanding advertising; 4 Animating images: Advertisements, texts, commodities; Text, commodity, pathology; Antidotes to advertising and the maladies of representation;



Commodities, persons and ownership; 5 Advertising reconsidered; Cultures of addiction? Consumption, representation and crisis rhetoric; A politics of synthetics; Advertising and taxonomy; Notes

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Advertising is often portrayed negatively, as corrupting a mythically pure relationship between people and things. In Advertising Myths Anne Cronin argues that it is better understood as a 'matrix of transformation' that performs divisions in the social order and arranges classificatory regimes. Focusing on consumption controversies, Cronin contends that advertising is constituted of 'circuits of belief' that flow between practitioners, clients, regulators, consumers and academics. Controversies such as those over tobacco and alcohol advertising, she argues, distil these beliefs and a

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785902603321

Autore

Soroka Mykola

Titolo

Faces of displacement [[electronic resource] ] : the writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko / / Mykola Soroka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-7735-8768-3

1-283-83486-3

0-7735-8767-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

891.7933

Soggetti

Exile (Punishment) in literature

Emigration and immigration in literature

Travel in literature

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Politics in literature

Ukraine In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. First displacement, 1907-1951 -- pt. 2. Second displacement, 1920-1951.

Sommario/riassunto

"Whom do our people read? Vynnychenko. Whom do people talk about if it concerns literature? Vynnychenko. Whom do they buy? Again, Vynnychenko." So wrote Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky about the young Volodymyr Vynnychenko. An innovative and provocative writer, Vynnychenko was also a charismatic revolutionary and politician who responded to the dramatic upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century by challenging old values and bringing forward new ideas about human relationships. Despite his inseparable association with Ukraine, what is often overlooked is the fact that Vynnychenko wrote the majority of his works outside his native land following his flight from Tsarist and Soviet tyranny. In this ground-breaking study, Mykola Soroka draws on contemporary theories of displacement to show how Vynnychenko's expatriate status determined his worldview, his choice of literary devices, and his attitudes toward his homeland and hostlands. Soroka considers concepts of identity to study the intertwined experiences of the writer - as an exile, émigré, expatriate, traveler, and nomad - and to demonstrate how these experiences invigorated his art and left a lasting impact on his work. The first book-length study in English on Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Faces of Displacement is an insightful examination of an exiled writer that sheds new light on the challenges faced by the displaced.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955851003321

Autore

Comstock Anna Botsford

Titolo

The Comstocks of Cornell-The Definitive Autobiography : The Definitive Autobiography / / Anna Botsford Comstock; Karen Penders St. Clair

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

9781501716287

150171628X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

595.7092

B

Soggetti

Women wood-engravers - New York (State) - Ithaca

College teachers - New York (State) - Ithaca

Entomologists - New York (State) - Ithaca

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Dedication in the 1953 edition of The Comstocks of Cornell. -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- For the Reader -- Editor's Commentary -- I. The Boyhood of John Henry Comstock, 1849-1865 -- II. A Sailor and a Scholar -- III. Undergraduate Days at Cornell, 1870-1874 -- IV. Anna Botsford Comstock-Childhood and Girlhood -- V. A University Professorship and Marriage, 1876-1879 -- VI. Entomologist to U. S. Department of Agriculture (Life in Washington as United States Entomologist, 1879-1881) -- VII. Return to Cornell -- VIII. The Year 1888-1889; With a Winter in Germany -- IX. California and Stanford University -- X. The Nature Study Movement at Cornell University; A Journey South to Study Spiders -- XI. "How to Know Butterflies" and the "Confessions to a Heathen Idol" -- XII. A Sabbatical Year Abroad-Egypt and Greece -- XIII. Italy, Switzerland, and Home -- XIV. Chapter 15: 1908-1912, Cornell's New Quarters for Entomology and Nature Study -- XV. The Two hundred and Fiftieth-anniversary Celebration of the Royal Society and The International Entomological Congress -- XVI. The 65th Milestone and Retirement -- XVII. Florida



and Retirement -- XVIII. The Toronto Meeting of the A. A. A. S. 1922. A surprising election and a voyage westward -- XIX. Honolulu and Happiness, a Voyage to Europe -- XX. Mentone -- Editor's Epilogue -- Appendix A: Original Preface for The Comstocks of Cornell. Written by Simon Henry Gage in 1938 -- Appendix B: Original Foreword for The Comstocks of Cornell. Written by Glenn W. Herrick for the 1953 Edition -- Appendix C: An Epilogue Written by Glenn W. Herrick for the 1953 Edition -- Appendix D: Memorial Statements for Anna Botsford Comstock Issued by Cornell University and Ithaca Daily Journal News -- Appendix E: Memorial Statements for John Henry Comstock Issued by Cornell University -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by the naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and that of her husband, the entomologist John Henry Comstock-both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. In this twenty-first-century edition, Karen Penders St. Clair restores the author's voice by reconstructing the entire manuscript as Anna Comstock wrote it-and thereby preserves Comstock's memories of the personal and professional lives of the couple as she originally intended. The book includes an epilogue documenting the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, this book is an essential part of the history of both Cornell University and its press.