William Marling's provocative work analyzes--in specific terms--the impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answers his own question--how -American- is globalization?--with two seemingly contradictory answers: -less than you think- and -more than you know.- Deconstructing the myth of global Americanization, he argues that despite the typically American belief that the United States dominates foreign countries, the practical effects of -Americanization- amount to less than one might suppose.
Critics point to the uneven popularity of McDonalds as a...
William Marling's provocative work analyzes--in specific terms--the impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answer...
The romantic idea of the writer as an isolated genius has been discredited, but there are few empirical studies documenting the role of "gatekeeping" in the literary process. How do friends, agents, editors, translators, small publishers, and reviewers-not to mention the changes in technology and the publishing industry-shape the literary process? This matrix is further complicated when books cross cultural and language barriers, that is, when they become part of world literature. Gatekeepers builds on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins, James English, and Mark McGurl,...
The romantic idea of the writer as an isolated genius has been discredited, but there are few empirical studies documenting the role of "gatekeeping" ...
