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AAUP - Texas Conference: January 2010
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AAUP - Texas Conference. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Update - Cary Nelson's visit to AAUP Texas and Texas A&M University. From Peter Hugill, AAUP - Texas Conference President. Cary Nelson, the national AAUP President, has committed to a trip thru. Texas before being the banquet speaker at the Spring Meeting in Austin. He will be here on campus Monday, February 22. I currently am planning. For him to give a late afternoon talk (3.30 to 4.30) followed by a. Senates meeting (512) 323-5466. Links to this po...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: 5/22/11 - 5/29/11
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. On the Subject of Soap, Poetry, Psychology Today, Blackness and Beauty. Some of you may have heard about. 8212;or been enraged by. 8212; the recent blog posting. That ten or twelve days ago appeared on. Then quickly disappeared from. The website of Psychology Today. Kanazawa, a scholar of evolutionary psychology and self-styled " Scientific Fundamentalist. Back in the 19th century, there were two products that drove advertising— and advertising i...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: Thoughts on Purina, Puffery, and Other Matters, Such as the Poetics of Inflation and the Advertising Poetry of Friskies Crispies Cheese Flavor Puffs
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Monday, July 2, 2012. Thoughts on Purina, Puffery, and Other Matters, Such as the Poetics of Inflation and the Advertising Poetry of Friskies Crispies Cheese Flavor Puffs. In Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period. 2007), Northumbria University English professor John Strachan. Repeatedly reminds us that the term " puff. Strachan writes, Griffin "envisages the goddess of [Alexander Pope's] The Dunciad. My name is Puff—the guardian sprite,. Me modest merit shun...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: Once More Into the Fray: The Remediation of Poetry in Liam Neeson's The Grey
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. Once More Into the Fray: The Remediation of Poetry in Liam Neeson's The Grey. Anyone notice that—like G.I. Jane. 1997) and The Expendables. 2010)—the 2011 Liam Neeson. Ends with a poem? Does G.I. Jane. And The Expend- ables. A clap of thunder sounds. Ottway concludes, "Storm clouds." And the men turn their attention back to the present. He says, "Once more into the fray.". Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. You might ...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: P&PC New Acquisition: Mighty-Maurice the Pot-Holder
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Saturday, May 16, 2015. P&PC New Acquisition: Mighty-Maurice the Pot-Holder. Everyone knows about the Kitchen Debate. Between then-U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. But who knew that the Cold War American kitchen was also full of poetry? About two years ago, we introduced P&PC. For neatness in your kitchen. Hand your hot-pads on my arms. Were al...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: P&PC in the Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Saturday, March 24, 2012. P&PC in the Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Between 1860 and 1920, advertising strategies for two products almost singlehandedly changed the face of consumer culture in the United States—or so Cary Nelson. Claim in "American Advertising: A Poem for Every Product," which is Chapter 7 in the newly-released, 700-page tome U.S. Popular Print Culture 1860-1920. Volume 6 of Oxford's History of Popular Print Culture. But Nelson and P&PC. On this blo...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: 1910-1920: The Golden Age of Poetry at the Movies?
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Friday, May 29, 2015. 1910-1920: The Golden Age of Poetry at the Movies? Summer interns have been knee-deep in the 1910s of late, as P&PC has been assembling and studying archives for an essay that editor and Northern Illinois University English professor Mark W. Van Wienen. Has asked us to write on "Popular Verse" from 1910-1920 for Cambridge University Press's decade-by-decade American Literature in Transition. You crowbar your potatoes out,. This fact you won't be doubtin,.
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Poetry & Popular Culture: Rat On Toast—For Dinner
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Sunday, April 29, 2012. Rat On Toast—For Dinner. It has been a tough week for the P&PC. Office cat Stella (pictured here). Courtesy of the SPCA of Pinellas County, Florida, where we found her the victim of two abandonments in a row and slated for, uh, disposal unless someone immediately adopted her, she's now an estimated eighteen years old and has been with P&PC. Since before there was a even a P. Wrote the Fireside poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. In 1859. C...
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Poetry & Popular Culture: G.I. Jane & D.H. Lawrence
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Poetry and Popular Culture. Saturday, February 12, 2011. GI Jane and D.H. Lawrence. A couple of weeks ago, P&PC. Noticed that The Expen- dables. 8212;Sylvester Stallone's 2010 testos- terone-filled vehicle for a fraternity house of fading action heroes— unexpectedly ends with a poem. Well, wouldn't you know it: right after that post went up, the P&PC. Office interns were having their annual Demi Moore. Film festival, and they came back to report that Moore's 1997 flick G.I. Jane. I never saw a wild thing.
