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The Governor General’s Literary Awards were created in 1936 and run by the Canadian Authors Assoc... more The Governor General’s Literary Awards were created in 1936 and run by the Canadian Authors Association until 1959. During this period in Canadian literature, the concept of Canadian authorship was being heavily interrogated, with the C.A.A. often disagreeing with modernist writers. This essay argues that during these twenty-five years, the C.A.A.—and more specifically William Arthur Deacon—attempted to use the awards to encourage authors and literature that supported their ideology of authorship. Specifically, Deacon attempted to influence the judging of the awards to champion middlebrow writing, living wages for authors, and a national literary culture, and in doing so, attempted to discourage highbrow, modernist literature.
American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 2012
The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries, eds. Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 51.1 (2013): 131-42., 2013
This paper examines Amazon’s advertisement for its e-book reader, the Kindle. It argues that this... more This paper examines Amazon’s advertisement for its e-book reader, the Kindle. It argues that this advertisement explicitly employs the rhetoric of remediation, as coined by Bolter and Grusin. The theory of remediation explains how a new medium pays homage to the previous medium upon which it is based, while also engaged in a form a rivalry with this older medium. This rhetoric of remediation is employed by Amazon to assure readers that the reading experience on a Kindle will be the same as reading a print book (homage), while also praising the superior technology of the Kindle (rivalry). By examining how this marketing strategy is employed and considering what features of the Kindle are ignored or downplayed in its advertisement, this paper argues that the marketing of the Kindle targets a very specific type of e-book reader. More importantly, this rhetoric used for advertising purposes has the potential to influence the way that readers discuss e-books at large.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 49.1, 2011
The Governor General’s Literary Awards were created in 1936 and run by the Canadian Authors Assoc... more The Governor General’s Literary Awards were created in 1936 and run by the Canadian Authors Association until 1959. During this period in Canadian literature, the concept of Canadian authorship was being heavily interrogated, with the C.A.A. often disagreeing with modernist writers. This essay argues that during these twenty-five years, the C.A.A.—and more specifically William Arthur Deacon—attempted to use the awards to encourage authors and literature that supported their ideology of authorship. Specifically, Deacon attempted to influence the judging of the awards to champion middlebrow writing, living wages for authors, and a national literary culture, and in doing so, attempted to discourage highbrow, modernist literature.
American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 2012
The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries, eds. Kate Oakley and Justin O'Connor
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 51.1 (2013): 131-42., 2013
This paper examines Amazon’s advertisement for its e-book reader, the Kindle. It argues that this... more This paper examines Amazon’s advertisement for its e-book reader, the Kindle. It argues that this advertisement explicitly employs the rhetoric of remediation, as coined by Bolter and Grusin. The theory of remediation explains how a new medium pays homage to the previous medium upon which it is based, while also engaged in a form a rivalry with this older medium. This rhetoric of remediation is employed by Amazon to assure readers that the reading experience on a Kindle will be the same as reading a print book (homage), while also praising the superior technology of the Kindle (rivalry). By examining how this marketing strategy is employed and considering what features of the Kindle are ignored or downplayed in its advertisement, this paper argues that the marketing of the Kindle targets a very specific type of e-book reader. More importantly, this rhetoric used for advertising purposes has the potential to influence the way that readers discuss e-books at large.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 49.1, 2011