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American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Begeerte in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Comportement de recherche dans la littérature --- Consommation (Economie politique) dans la littérature --- Consumptie (Economie) in de literatuur --- Consumption (Economics) in literature --- Culture matérielle dans la littérature --- Desire in literature --- Désir dans la littérature --- Material culture in literature --- Materiële cultuur in de literatuur --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Plagen in de literatuur --- Searching behavior in literature --- Taquineries dans la littérature --- Teasing in literature --- Verbruik (Economie) in de literatuur --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- Zoekgedrag in de literatuur --- American literature --- History and criticism --- Modernism (Literature) --- United States --- Bambara, Toni Cade --- Criticism and interpretation --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Wright, Richard --- Morrison, Toni
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"American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire. Such lists, however, mislead. Just as most US dictionaries have in fact long recognised tantalise's origins in The Odyssey, so they have defined it as the unique desire we feel for objects that (like the fruit and water once cruelly placed before Tantalus) lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them. On these terms, American Tantalus shows, tantalise not only describes a particular kind of thwarted desire, but also one that dominates modern US fiction to a remarkable extent. For this term specifically evokes the yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects that we find examined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison; and it also indicates the insatiable pursuit of the horizon so important to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton among others. This eclectic canon indeed "prefers" the dictionary to the thesaurus: unreachable destinations and untouched commodities here indeed tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.
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Picture a familiar scene: long lines of shoppers waiting to check out at the grocery store, carts filled to the brim with the week's food. While many might wonder what is in each cart, Andrew Warnes implores us to consider the symbolism of the cart itself. In his inventive new book, Warnes examines how the everyday shopping cart is connected to a complex web of food production and consumption that has spread from the United States throughout the world. Today, shopping carts represent choice and autonomy for consumers, a recognizable American way of life that has become a global phenomenon. This succinct and and accessible book provides an excellent overview of consumerism and the globalization of American culture.
Shopping carts --- Consumption (Economics) --- Shopping --- Merchandising --- History. --- academic. --- accessible. --- america. --- american culture. --- analysis. --- buggy. --- consumerism. --- consumers. --- daily life. --- day to day. --- easy to understand. --- everyday items. --- food consumption. --- food production. --- food shopping. --- global phenomenon. --- globalization. --- grocery cart. --- grocery shopping. --- grocery store. --- scholarly. --- shopping cart. --- shopping. --- symbolism. --- united states.
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